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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1952
Page
18
A chessboard of words. the note discusses bidding and play in bridge. East must not lead a low spade and instead can force a trump trick after the second diamond ace, ending with the king of hearts as a setting trick. The passage then shifts to a puzzle list of vertical and horizontal clues.
A Canasta dispute outlines meld rules and scoring differences across variants including Canasta and traditional play. The note mentions Jacoby answering reader questions, plus a curiously dated query on women bartenders. The Maryland District of Columbia Federation of Labor also weighs in on women workers in taverns.
Oswald Jacoby responds to a St Louis reader on the best defensive play in a bridge hand. West opens with diamond queen, South covers with ten, West continues with nine, East wins with king, South discards jack, East plays ace of spades. South then gains via king of spades and works through clubs to shed diamonds, leading to the solution.
Oswald Jacoby explains how Chilean Canasta uses wild cards and how some locales permit converting melds into waxed canastas. He discusses examples such as turning a three deuces meld into a mixed canasta with kings and the limits on adding natural cards when many wild cards are present.
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