Bridge Titlists Suffer Upset In Tournament
The defending champions lost in the master team of four knockout at the national contract bridge tournament in Washington. John Crawford and George Rapee led a New York trio to defeat by Ambrose Casner Allen Harvey and Frank Weisbach with Charles Hall of Cincinnati. Leventritt and Kahn won the master pairs title, with Kaplan and Drucker second and Doern and Delott fourth in a field of 248 pairs.
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Washington
John Crawford
Philadelphia
George Rapee
Howard Schenken
Sam Stayman
New York
Ambrose Casner
Allen Harvey
Lobduisville
Frank Weisbach
Charles Hall
Cincinnati
Kalman Apfel
Francis Begley
Louis Kelner
Robert Ables
Jules Tilles
Charles H. Goren
Sidney Silodor
Helen Sobel
Leventritt and
Kahn
von Zedtwitz
Edgar Kaplan
Ned Drucker
Helen Doern
Sam Delott
Chicago
Edith Seligman
Alvin Roth
Julius Rosenblum
New Orleans
American Contract Bridge League
Benn
San Antonio
Bridge Games This Week At Local Clubs
Bridge games this week at American Legion Club YMCA Club and Phoenix Duplicate Bridge Club plus a beginner class at 364 N. Seventh Ave and a 7:45 p.m. session at Shepler Club. Winners yesterday at the Arizona Club led north south by Dave Conlin and wife with 165% and 164% match points, while east west Dan Westerfield and Don Sherer led 155% with rivals Nancy Mense and T R Neiswander at 150% respectively.
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American Legion Club
Seventh Ave
YMCA
W. Monroe
Phoenix
15Th Ave
Shepler Club
Winning contract bidding and the grand slam debacle
In a North-South vulnerable bridge hand North opens clubs, South plays eight and three. A third club leads to a trump finish allowing South to ruff the fourth club. The grand slam fails to occur and a tense exchange follows about whether to double or redouble to influence the sacrifice bid.
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North
South
East
North- South
Jack Dalton
West
Public Life Ban Lifted For Japs
Tokyo reports government removed 13 904 names from wartime public life ban as occupation authorities denied clearance for 380 others. Notables cleared include Ichiro Hatoyama, Jiichiro Matsumoto, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, and Keizo Shibusawa. Hatoyama purged for praise of Hitler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Hatoyama
Jiichiro Matsumoto
House of Councillors
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Keizo Shibusawa
Bank of Japan
Sailor Flees Soviet Rule Seeking Asylum in Sweden
An East German sailor, 57, swam from a Soviet Zone trawler and was rescued by Swedish pilots between Sweden and Denmark. He said two others joined him but were recaptured. The refugee joins about 10,000 people who fled Communist countries to Sweden since World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Denmark
World Council of Churches drafts stand for peace
The World Council of Churches published A Christian Stand for Peace condemning unilateral military action and preventive war. Led by Dr. Kenneth Grubb, the plan urges mutual trust, UN compliance, and aid from wealthier nations to poorer nations as steps toward lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolle
Switzerland
World Council of Churches Today
Council
International Affairs Commission
Kenneth Grubb
London
United Nations
Crop Dusting Plane Crashes Near Nogales
Richard M. Nolan, 28, of Picacho, is recovering from first and second degree burns after a crop dusting plane crashed about 50 feet off the ground 14 miles north of Nogales on Saturday. He was rushed to a Nogales hospital after the accident caused the plane to overturn during takeoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Richard M. Nolan
U S and Greece Sign Friendship Treaty
Washington August 6 The United States and Greece signed a treaty of friendship commerce and navigation in Athens the pact awaits ratification by both governments before becoming effective It covers travel and residence of citizens in the other protection of personal freedoms property rights business conduct exchange negotiations and navigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Greece
Athens
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Howard Schenken and
Richard L. Frey
South Dealer
Palmer
Ichiro Hatoyama
Japan Liberal Party
Hitler
Mussolini
Shigeru Yoshida
Stella White
Sailor
Edifoons
The
Phoenix Gazette
First Street
van Buren
Greyhound
All America
Kroehler
Heywood-Wakefield
Mengel
Huntington
Simmons
Crown
Paul L. Sale
Mesa
Chandler
Glendale
Economy Furniture Co
State
Arizona
American Fence Co
East Roosevelt
U.S
Community Credit
N. 1St Ave
American Gém Society
Paul L
Ascole
Breafast Nook
Mesa Chandler & Economy Furniture CO
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