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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1975
Page
11
In the West hand after a 2 Hearts overcall South led, West won a welcome bonus by interposing. Declarer misread a diamond sequence and West dropped the queen to force a trump layout, then capitalized on a misdefense leading to a sharp finish. The defense sank declarer by a missing trump finesse and careful endplay.
On August 28 various events marked the date including Henry Hudson's Delaware Bay discovery in 1609, Tolstoy's birth in 1828, the British abolition of slavery in 1833, Carnegie's Hague gift dedication in 1913, and civil rights rally in 1963. Also noted: 1916 Romania war entry, suffragette arrests in 1917, and a 1975 reference to Nasser’s Moscow visit with a note on recent spaceflight events.
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