On This Day in History April 9 1962 Almanac
Almanac notes today is April 9 the 99th day of 1962 with 266 to follow. Historical highlights include Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in 1865 and Japan’s Bataan resistance collapse in 1942. Also mentions Denmark Norway blitzkrieg in 1940 and Knights of Pythias membership ban in 1953.
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United Press International
Venus
Robert E. Lee
Northern Virginia
U.S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
Germany
Bataan
Philippines
New York State
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
U.S
South D Jacoby on Bridge Double Locate
South and North open with D and joint bridge play. West holds Q843 and K102 with 1098. The hand describes typical defensive positioning and potential losing tricks based on the bidding and suit distribution.
Henry Wins With Vienna Coup In Club and Diamond Finish
In a bridge play, Henry leads spades to the dummy, wins with the jack, and continues with three more spade rounds. East takes queen, leads a club which Henry clears in hand, two more trumps finish, all diamonds except one shed from dummy, and a Vienna coup unfolds. Henry discards jack of hearts at the crucial moment, West cannot discard, and Henry uses the ace and queen of diamonds to clinch the last two tricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
East
Dummy
West
Across and Down Sports Puzzle Clues Digest
A compact listing of crossword style clues from a Good Sports feature. Across entries include a sports group five baseball equipment twelve The moon eh fourteen Fe g shapes six Dry sixteen Free seventeen Ceramic piece eighteen Holds back ped fifty four Let it stand fifty five Foot like part fifty six Backtalk Real down clues accompany the grid.
Principles of bidding and a spade slam lesson
Oswald Jacoby presents a bidding puzzle from Henry Auslander of Pittsburgh. With 17 points and a misfit hand, declarer faced a potential slam down due to a defender’s misstep. The key lesson is not to double a slam when it could locate cards for the declarer, as West did.
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Oswald Jacoby
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Henry Auslander
Pittsburgh
Henry
West
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