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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1971
Page
10
A dense page presents a sprawling daily crossword with clues spanning Doa trooper's job to Wray of the silents and a cryptogram puzzle featuring Longfellow. The cryptogram offers a famous Pascal quote about force and opinion, followed by the previous day’s cryptoquote.
South dealer, four hearts contract after king of clubs opening lead. West holds king of clubs and may misread. One play is to win ace, draw trumps, and finesse jack of spades. Becker notes this as example of reducing luck through proper play in contract bridge.
Muscatine Journal explains a bridge hand where the advised play beats the contract. It details winning the club lead with the ace, drawing trumps, cashing A-K of spades, and leading the jack of clubs to discard, securing the contract beyond doubt despite potential queen of spades or other danger.
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