How Henry Paynter Fights Uninvited Guests at Home
Hal Boyle profiles Henry Paynter and his wife who fled Greenwich Village to a Long Island farm and then a wooded mountain to escape visitors. Paynter booby traps driveways with electrified fences and benches, conceals access paths, and deploys rattlesnakes and wasps to deter guests. He claims the system has kept uninvited visitors away for years, though he jokes about finally vacationing elsewhere.
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Paynter
Hank
Airforce
Greenwich Village
Long Island
Paynters
New York
Hawke
Bridge: No trump vs suit decisions in tournament play
William E. McKenney explains that choosing no trump or a suit contract carries greater strategic weight in tournament bridge than in rubber play, highlighting the impact on opening leads, bidding, and defensive duties.
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William E. McKenney
America
Choosing safest contract in rubber bridge analysis
The article argues tournament players risk too many no trump contracts for the extra ten points. It discusses a hand where South opens one no trump and the ensuing four clubs auction. East leads, spades and trumps are drawn, and declarer ends up with a complex win while defending preserves positions.
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South
North
West
East
Declarer
Ron
Women Vote Against Long Skirts In Cleveland War
In Cleveland Aug 25 two women groups led by Mrs Olga Mikolsky and a coed faction from Fenn College attacked long skirts. Older women urged fashion limits citing safety and figure concerns while college girls resisted promising to keep their styles, highlighting a local fashion clash with potential spread to Euclid Wickliffe and beyond.
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Cleveland
Olga Mikolsky
Harry Rudy
Mikolsky
Dayton
Euclid
Wickliffe
Fenn College
Labor Strife May Destroy Film Industry
Los Angeles reports Rep. Carroll D. Kearns says labor strife may ruin Hollywood's film industry after a week of hearings on the American Federation of Labor's jurisdictional dispute. He calls the conflict much ado about nothing and hopes for a settlement. Father George H. Dunne testifies his efforts to settle the strike, now in its 12th month, faced pressure from ecclesiastical superiors.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Carroll D. Kearns
R-Pa
American Federation of Labor
Kearns
House
George H. Dunne
Loyola (Los Angeles) University
Helen Hayes Wears Bandage After Shower Accident
Helen Hayes injured her right wrist in a Nyack shower fall. Ten stitches were needed after two deep gashes, forcing the cancellation of tonight’s matinee and requiring changes to lines. Hayes had worn a phony bandage on stage each night for ten months since opening Happy Birthday.
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New York
Helen Hayes
Miss Hayes
Nyack
Lover's Quarrel Ends In Death
In New York a 23 year old woman Virginia Greene fatally shot herself with her policeman father’s revolver and wounded her fiancée Andrew McCarthy a 23 year old assistant district attorney said in what he called obviously a lover's quarrel. Kingston a Navy veteran is in critical condition after a bullet hit him in the back and near the heart. The event occurred in Kingston's Bronx home as Greene left handedly fired in the kitchen.
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New York
Virginia Greene
Andrew McCarthy
Matthew Kingston
McCarthy
Kingston
Bronx
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Essoy
RD Gil Company
Homer City Road
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Frank B. Rys
Chicago Board of Trade
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Ags
Apa
Tae
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Nix
Ayds
Troutman’s
Parnell - Cowher Co
Insurance Headquarters
James A. Brady
John Greene
Greene
Brady
Lillian Kingston
University of New Mexico
Igus
Bos
Arene
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