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Page 22 THE HERALD Wednesday October by Jimmy Johnson FOUR MIGHT TO WATCH THEM Comicajjj FRANK ERNEST by Bob Thaves JAMES THE NY jnAvey MEEK by Hemic Schneider CABIfJET SECRETARIES CORPORATE EXECUTIVES REAL ESTATE MOGULS HEROES REMEMBER USED TO BE WE CAUSE OF CRIME BORN LOSER by Art and Chip Sansom by Joseph Farris WINTHROP by Dick CavaJH GRIZZWELLS by BUI Schorr Birthday You II make more rapid progress In the year ahead If you share the good that befalls you with people who have been helpful No matter what youIf give away you II always get mare back LIBRA Sept 23Oct 23 Even advice from wellintentioned friends Is not like ly to be well received by you today es pecially If their comments pertain to your domestic affairs Trying to patch up a broken romance The Astro- Graph Matchmaker can help you to un derstand what to do to make the rela tionship work SCORPIO Oct 24Nov Try to keep In mind today that you are not the only one among your contemporaries who Is capable of coming up with clever Ideas Your pals will resent your lack of appre ciation for their thoughts SAGITTARIUS Nov 23Dac 21 Be cautious today regarding involvements where appear you only have to put In a little money to get something big going Your hopes could be predicated upon wishful thinking CAPRICORN Dec 22Jan Part nership arrangements won t work too well at this time if there Is a lack of can dor in the alliance Each party must be totally truthful with the other AQUARIUS Jan 20Feb 19 There is someone you know rather well who Is never satisfied regardless of how much you do This person Is likely to be slam ming a fist on the complaint desk again today PISCES Feb It s tant you do not malign a mutual friend in front of others today If you put this person down your listeners will start to wonder what you been saying behind their backs ARIES March 19 You re ca pable ol achieving critical objectives to day but you might offend others In the process Try not to leave angry asso ciates In your wake TAURUS April 20May 20 Your sources of Information today might not be as accurate or valid as they usually are To be on the safe side don t base Important judgments on hearsay GEMINI May 21Juna 20 Occasionally old obligations have a way of rearing their ugly heads at Inconvenient times Today several you been trying to keep submerged may wiggle their way to the surface CANCER Onetoone relationships might be a bit difficult for you to manage today The faults you find In your companions may be a re flection of your own Inadequacies LEO July 23Aug 22 When duty calls strive to respond promptly today be cause responsibilities you fall to attend to wi I worsen with neglect Don t let things pile up VIRGO Aug In your social Involvements today you might not dis play your usual gracious qualities Peo ple with whom you usually have a good rapport may be the ones who annoy you the most Qua newspaper enterprise NORTH IDS WEST 10 KQJ EAST K 3 2 SOUTH 1063 A74 Vulnerable- EastWest Dealer South SMth West North East 1 Pass Pass 3 Pass Pass Pass Pass All pass Opening lead K Desperation play By James Was this such a bad slam Without a club lead even with West having a trump trick all that would be needed is a diamond split with the queen held by West However the opening lead created a serious problem If the queen of spades had come down the contract would depend only upon fa vorable diamonds But West held the queen of spades for a sure trick and had already set up a club trick for the defense What now Often the secret of succeeding in seemingly impossible contracts is for declarer to make certain assumptions that a particular distribution of cards exists that will allow him to make the contract Such is the case here After the king of clubs lead when the queen of spades does not fall declarer has but one chance He has to hope that West holds four diamonds Declarer wins the day by playing a di amond to dummys ace and then a heart back to his ace Next the eight of diamonds is played Wben West plays low declarer also plays low from dummy It is true that declarer risks going down three tricks if East wins the of diamonds club to Wests jack queen of spades and then anoth club winner for West Bnt that ex tra loss is more than compensated for by the gain when the needed lie of the cards exists When East shows oat on the second diamond trick another dia mond is played to the jack In dummy and then the ace and king of diamonds allow declarer to discard his losing clubs and make the slam Jamea books at BrMgi aad the lata an at ASM CELEBRITY CIPHER TV I M U Ill CWMVV JXU F C A E Z U E M a