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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1961
Page
11
In a Pittsburgh match North passes one spade after East shows diamonds and clubs. South gains one diamond ace but loses a spade ace. North eventually discards a heart to let five clubs and hearts endgame produce five odd tricks. The hand supports a game contract despite conservative bidding.
Oswald Jacoby explains his approach to third and fourth hand openings and partner's new suit responses. He favors treating a strong opening bid as a force and would raise South's spade response to spades even without extra honors.
Forty five Cuban refugees landing at Key West report exchanging gunfire with a Cuban gunboat disguised as a fishing vessel during their escape. Many were barefoot and in tattered clothes after three boats reached Cay Sal Island before fleeing to the United States for asylum processing in Miami.
On this day in history Blanche Scott became the first woman to fly solo in 1910 at Fort Wayne. In 1949 the British Eighth Army opened El Alamein offensive. In 1955 Saar voters rejected Europeanization and favored reunification with Germany. Thought for today by Henry Noel Brailsford.
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