Here’s A Rule Good To Know By Oswald Jacoby
In this bridge column, Oswald Jacoby notes a key endplay concept when West leads diamonds and spades are involved. He analyzes a scenario where West’s choice of spade play reveals or hides the ten, guiding readers to use the middle card on a first round finesse with three to the ten in trumps. Eddie Yost, once a UW basketball player, is mentioned as context.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
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South
East
Canasta strategy: fast out versus big score
A Chicago correspondent argues over whether to pursue a fast out or a big score in Canasta. He recounts hands where fast outs shifted the game, noting hand composition determines whether to end quickly or build points, and advises targeting undestroyed discs and controllable discards when luck mood favors the next hands.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
Chicago
Germantown Girl Wins Montgomery County Cake Prize
Mary Virginia Dorsey, 12, of Germantown, won the Montgomery County 4-H cake baking championship at the Home Show in Washington on Monday. She defeated classmates Augusta Mae King of Woodfield and another contestant to earn a $25 prize.
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Mary Virginia Dorsey
Germantown
Montgomery County
Augusta Mae King
Woodfield
Dunkard's Match: German town teen and 1882 US firm tale
Mary Margaret Weir of German town and Mary Virginia at Gaithersburg High School are linked to a historical item titled Dunkard's Match. An American company in 1882 produced matches with chemically treated sticks that burned along the lower half, a notable early industrial curiosity.
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Germantown
Mary Virginia
Gaithersburg High School
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