Judge — December 5, 1931 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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SIDNEY S. LENZ’ NEW BOOK on | HIS OWN 1-2-3 SYSTEM ot CONTRACT BIDDING MR. LENZ’ new system of Contract Bidding, which is the basis of the “Official System” as adopted by leading brid t authorities, eliminates all guessing, and definitely determines a bridge hand as fair, good or very strong. This book is pocket size, thumb indexed and provides a ready reference on any point. It explains in detail quick-tricks, nor- mal support, how and when to bid suits of one, two and thre the correct response to each bid, no trump bids, pre-emptive bids, ace showing, slam bids, non-demand bids, leads, ete. Every point of the system of contract bidding is carefully illustrated opposite each page of text. All phases of the game have been carefully analyzed by Sidney . Lenz, fourteen times National and International Bridge and ; | Whist Champion. we 72" Tam Oy, ptOks 30 vet Dot Use the 1-2-3 2 | proper, it rem. SUDGING™ BOOKS (Continued from page 1) | One might say with its accent on the physical, nicely shading into the the best maga- zine of all time. The world will prob- ably never have quite as good fun as it had in the '80s and ‘90s. Forbid- den fruit in those days, still being forbidden, was sweeter. s Wee got to do something about ourself and the Mr. J. K. Win- kler, who writes all those biographies. We've always been in powerful sym- pathy with Mr, Winkler’s idea of what constitutes a good biographical subject, and we've always felt we'd like to love him as a brother for dar- ing to attempt to work out honestly on these subjects: tough little fellows like our Mr. Hearst, or our Mr. Rockefeller, or our Mr. Morgan, the un-munificent. However, Mr. Win- kler has a habit of understatement or, if you wish, underestimation, Mr. Winkler has courage but not enough. With his newest, “Incredible Car- negie,” we feel Winkler has at once done his best and his poorest job. Un- questionably the book is much the most uninhibited job Winkler has tried, considering all the bugaboos of libel, press-agent collaboration and plain fear that threaten him time he sits down to doing a portr. He seems to have achieved a cl and true angle on the Iron M and written away at the old chiseler for all he was worth. But it seems to us there is some- thing dull about the uncanny little Scotchman. Carnegie lacked in stat- ure to sit for a portrait. There wasn’t enough to him to fill the canvas. True, you could paint into his portrait a ture of all those hundreds of mil- lions that he accrued. You might even te a list of the moral and so accomplishments of the bagpipe lover in the empty spaces left (if any)— it still remains but a worthy unexciting life. For money everything, and all Scotchmen are alike, once you get the essential idea of their canniness and love of por- ridge. In fact, all you never quite do understand about them is that they see something musical in the sound of the bagpipe. And Carnegie was just a Scotchman who loved his mother, his dollar, but not his business pal. He chiseled his way to a fortune and was always ready to cut a throat to gain an honest dollar. But he was of such fine moral fiber and lacked so much in piratical coefficient his deeds lack salt and glamour, however dir! Which still leaves us Mr. Winkler’s best friend and severest critic. —Trp Siane comicbooks.com