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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1976
Page
6
North opens 1 club, South reaches 3NT after a spade lead. West misdefends, allowing declarer to run clubs and diamonds while forcing spade tricks from West. A king of diamonds duck at trick four could have defeated the contract, but misplay kept declarer at nine tricks.
West leads king of clubs in the B. Jay Becker example to show active defense. The article analyzes how a neutral third trick keeps declarer from making and contrasts with a passive line. Tomorrow: A delicate operation.
A collage of language notes and curiosities from 1976. Topics range from laser tattoos to synonyms and etymology, with brief quips on dogs, jealousy, sand, sounds in nature, tree physics, a cemetery tombstone, and place names across Missouri and beyond.
A pair of Dear Abby columns explore conflicts in marriages and relationships. In Longview, a wife questions her husband's loan to a divorcee seeking silicone implants, while another wife asks why she feels like a substitute for her late wife, noting the husband's keeping of his first wife’s mementos and inherited jewelry.
Dear Abby letter from a husband asking Abby to scold his wife for not waking first to make coffee. Abby replies by challenging the premise, suggests compromise and alternating duties, and notes that everyone has a problem.
In 1869 Thomas A. Edison reportedly devised a voting device later noted in history. Jacob H. Myers’ machine became the first publicly used model in 1892. Stormy Petrels or Mother Cary’s Chickens are said to be protected by sailors as living embodiments of dead mariners’ souls.
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