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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1951
Page
15
Readers learn a legend about Cracow’s towers trumpet call begun seven hundred years ago during a Tartar siege. The hornman was struck by an arrow and the tune ends on a broken note today. The column also notes hummingbirds’ color preference and Hall and Nordhoff meeting in the Lafayette Escadrille.
Two red nines were the key cards in today's hand. When the hand was played in a recent team match, both declarers lost the slam by stubbing their toes over the red nines. In both rooms, West opened the king of spades and continued a dead duck. If he dropped the low diamond, he would have to win the second round of the suit in his own hand with the ten and jack, and then there would be no way to get back to he dropped the ten of diamonds under dummy's queen. Hast would cover the nine of diamonds with the king, and then East would have a sure diamond trick. The right diamond play was to lead the nine first. Hast would have to play low, and the nine would hold. Dummy would then lead the queen, repeating the finesse. Finally, dummy could lead a low diamond to Uk, the finesse for the third time.
In room one South misruffed with seven hearts then led king hearts revealing West held all four trumps. After forced plays, dummy won a trump, but South was left with no last trump and failed a diamond finesse, ending down. In room two South finessed diamonds twice, but misled with queen of diamonds, letting East win.
A fragment from a local column lampoons a deceased uncle Bil as a sham reformer. The preacher spoke at length without substance, echoing political blandness. The piece captures a satirical view of funeral oratory and public hypocrisy.
New York reports rising tobacco sales driven by cigarets while pipe and chewing tobacco lose share. Kaywoodie head Morris Levinson says pipes will rebound with ads stressing throat health. He notes 9 percent pipe only smokers and 37 percent who mix pipes cigars and cigarettes, with women driving Christmas pipe gift sales.
A collection of remarks from Barbara Button about marriage to Americans, a Soviet press claim on freedom, Gwendolyn Cafritz on inviting Truman, Kansas City flood recovery praise by Sen. Kem, and a general’s valor commentary on medals in victory or defeat.
A humorous quip about detecting deception in romance. The speaker notes that women easily spot a lie except when a man flatters them as wonderful. The line satirizes flattery as a blind spot in discernment.
The text notes Confucius taught the Golden Rule more than 500 years before Christ and cites a passage from Analects. It also mentions Napoleon Lit of France wearing a concealed aluminum breast plate to deter assassins and that aluminum was valued at $545 per ounce at the time.
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