Psychic bids and bold slams in early Vanderbilt match
A column notes a Vanderbilt 1936 match where a partner’s psychic bid left the author with a safe four hearts. Despite all top cards and seven spades led, the team won the match and tournament, with reflections on Jacoby slam ideas. It also mentions San Juan as oldest city under the American flag since 1511 and Costa Rica exporting coffee from 1825.
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Dave Bruce
Dave
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Costa Rica
Clark Gable Services Today for Airman Actor
Hollywood mourns Clark Gable who died at 59 after a second heart attack. The star served in the Army Air Corps in World War I, earned his wings as a gunner, and received the Air Medal in Europe. Funeral private with full honors set for 9 a.m. Saturday at Forest Lawn Glendale with Air Force representatives and a color guard.
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Hollywood
Air Force
Clark Move
Army Air Corps
Gable
Europe
Dudley ‘Sharp
James D. Hunter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Johnson E. West
Notable Actor’s Obituary Mentions Lands Death Details
The report notes the actor from the air base near Riverside has died and will be buried beside his third wife, actress Carole Lombard, who perished in a 1942 Nevada plane crash while returning from a war bonds tour.
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Riverside
Here
Gable
Carole Lombard
Nevada
Youth Sentenced In Bank Robbery
In Cleveland AP report 16 year old William Ellsworth Evans pleaded guilty under federal juvenile statutes for his role in the Akron Ohio bank robbery at the West Hill branch of the First National. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term in a federal institution running no longer than his 21st birthday. He alleges his father Joe Evans of Akron compelled him to participate.
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Cleveland
William Ellsworth Evans
Akron
Ohio
Joe Sees Elsworth Evans
Akiron
West Hill
First National
Pittsburgh Woman Charged in Akron Theft Case
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicted Kathryn M. Evans, 50, of Pittsburgh, on charges of receiving 49,400 dollars of stolen funds from a $63,316 Akron theft dated Sept. 26. The father was previously sentenced to 18 years in a federal prison on related charges.
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Ion
Akron
Pitts‘burgh
Kathryn M. Evans
Pittsburgh
Evans
Canadian National rail ships generator cars to boost Georgetown lights
Supplementing supply Montreal AP The Canadian National Railways system ships two generator cars to provide bright lighting for Christmas in Georgetown British Guiana where the population has outgrown the electric supply.
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Montreal
Canadian National Railways System
Georgetown
British
Guiana
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Vanderbilt
Clark Gable
Damascus. MD
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Kitimanjaro
Bing Crosby
Hesbalot
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Isuowina
Lollo Brigidr
Pierre Brasseur
Marcelle Mastrolanni
Melina Mercouri
Yves Mont and
Jules Dassin
Western Maryland Trust Co
Patrick Street
Frederick, Md
North Frederick Branch
Jefferson Branch
Military Road
Jeferson, Md
Imber Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Phive
Raddock Paek Eee
James
Halvey Gallant
Hiouus
C. Smith
Guy L. Masser
Turkeys
the News
Frederick, Maryland
Gene Krupa
Sebeines
Koka
Our Man
Havana
Guriives
Maureen O'Hare
Alec Guiness
Erne Kovacs
Pearre
South Market St
Eagle’s Club
East Patrick Street
Fae
Audivox
Amercan Telephone and Telegraon Company
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Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc
Resa Pte
Frederick Shopping Center
MAAS
RCA
RCA Victor
Routzahn’s
Ashmead
Mahogany
Braddock Heights
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