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...personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would be no formations, that the first bugler who sounded his trump would be exiled...
...Turkey should choose neutrality against Allied wishes, Saracoglu will need all his underlying toughness, for the Allies have trump cards...
Postwar Insurance. Probably the most powerful trump card the Allies can play is the prospect of furnishing postwar influence for Turkey against Soviet Russia. Despite the "series of most advanced treaties" which Saracoglu announced as having consolidated the Turkish rapprochement with Russia, Russian postwar aims remain Turkey's greatest fear. Control of the Dardanelles, Russia's only outlet to the southern waterways, has been a sore point between the two nations for decades; Turkey's control of it today hinges on the Montreux Convention...
...spades. He then runs three hearts, winding up with the lead in his own hand. He then leads a small diamond to the jack and returns the queen, overtaking it. The ace of diamonds is now led, and West has the choice of putting in a trump or discarding a club. If he trumps. North overtrumps, takes out all the trumps with three leads and all the diamonds in the South hand are good. If West discards a club, North trumps with the deuce of spades, leads the king of clubs (South discards a diamond), then a small club, which...
...four months barrel-bellied Leon Henderson devoted himself: 1) to Havana, Mexico and California, 2) to restoring his bridge reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...