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Card Game Strategy and Family Advice in 1865 Columns
A bridge hand analysis shows how misread cards can cost a slam as South misplays and East ducking trumps could have altered the outcome. The column discusses endplays, discards, and where missteps occur in a famed hand. Also includes an advice feature where 14-year-old Helen Worden Erskine guides a reader on family money disputes and directs to the American Bankers Association pamphlet for personal money management.
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