Kaplans Trump Coup Across A Variation In A Bridge Hand
William E. McKenney reports on Dick Kaplan of Asheville guiding a spade oriented defense in a four spades contract. Kaplan discards to force safe trumps, ruffs with clubs, and uses heart and diamond cues to limit opponents trumps enabling Kaplan to secure the jack of spades. The maneuver seeks to avoid three trump tricks.
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Dick Kaplan
Asheville, N. C
Wests
Jed
Kaplan
East
Jose
South
North
Kantan
Dummy
Puzzle clues and a bridge slipstream note
A cryptic list mixes chess like terms with animal names and a poker stake clue. It ends with a bridge commentary about cashing the second heart before ruffing clubs to avoid an unfavorable discard by North.
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North
Hollywood Stars and Deals Stir July Hush in Film Capital
Hollywood gossip from Erskine Johnson notes Bogart and Lamarr considering Lamarr's home due to acrophobia, while Lamarr teases a three way partnership on a Bergman romance. Payne eyes a film version of Freedom Ring with 20th Century Fox, and Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer share twenty one kissing scenes in Arch of Triumph. Beery writes autobiography after decades in cinema, Yolanda Lacca on The Chase set receives a father’s locket from Major Ralph J. McCarthy, and Harrodsburg claims Kentucky’s first settlement dating to 1774.
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Vera
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Ratoff
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Ray Massey
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Holly Bane
M-G-M
Harry Sherman
Ingrid Bergman
Charles Boyer
Yolanda Lacca
Bob Cummings
Ralph J. McCarthy
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N. Y
Yolanda
Rome
America
Broun
Murder Plot Unfolds as Lederer Faces Custody
Jigger pressures Blossom to reveal key details of Lederer and Birdie’s scheme. A doctored cache of race related leaflets shipped to California trigger confrontations, and Blossom hints at papers printed nationwide to incite trouble. The investigation tightens as evidence points toward a political graft scheme and a looming homicide tainted by bribery.
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Pop Lynch
Nore
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Bigget
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