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They were a powerful trump in Doenitz' hand; for, even when inactive, they immobilized the greater part of Britain's Home Fleet, plus some U.S. vessels which could have been in action elsewhere...
Menzel and Jacoby dominated practically the entire play and it was only rarely that Hyde and Burditt had a chance to show their playing merits. When they got the chance, the Gold Dust Twins acquitted themselves very well, but after the first hand, which Jacoby played for six no trump, the result was a foregone conclusion. This hand, incidentally, was perhaps the most spectacular played all evening. The three-rubber total was 2220 points for the Navy team...
...Russo-Japanese nonaggression and neutrality pact was a diplomatic trump for the Kremlin-a way "to impress the Germans," says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that...
...FOURTEENTH TRUMP-Judson P. Philips- Dodd. Mead ($2). The tough and tricky tale of a Manhattan hotel-room murder that puts a pretty girl in the shadow of the chair, leads Broadway Gambler Danny Coyle and his Harvard-graduate assistant through a dexterously crooked bridge club to a shoot-it-out finish. Credible tough-guy stuff, well packed with excitement...
Finally Governor Lehman played his last desperate trump against Jim Farley's majority of votes. He had a letter from Franklin Roosevelt suggesting a way out: Mead and Bennett would both withdraw, a dark horse would be named, party harmony would be saved...