Judge — May 28, 1932 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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In tournament play, where matches ire won by comparative scores, the maximum must be played for and the honor count on this deal is import- int. Charles Lochridge and Johnny Rau of the Knickerbocker Whist Club and Commander Liggett and myself tied for top on this hand. Liggett sat North and knew I held the guarded Ace of Clubs, because my bid showed all suits stopped and no singletons. The King of Hearts opened and it was at once ap- arent that there was a fifty percent hance for the contract. If the hand that held four or more Spades also had the King of Dia- monds, the contract must be won. The Ace of Hea and nine black card tricks, forced East down to the Jack of Spades and the King-ten of st was stuck in with the Jack Spades and compelled to lead away | from the guarded King of Diamonds. BOOKS (Continued from page 1) by our economic system, is Mr. W on’s casebook for Communism. For, he has looked over the American laboring scene from every compass point, and after studying the dirty work gotten in by wealth, he sees only the religion of Marx as the cure. His humanitarianism is shocked by ne horrors he has looked on and beneath his cold, printed, carefully sketched pictures you see his heart bleeding for the underdog. After a few hundred pages of this, you too, are likely to agree with him. But whether you agree with Mr. Wilson or not you ought to read the book. Also, something ought to be done to clear up our homegrown | messes. (No kidding, Mr. Shane!) If only to drag Mr, Wilson out of slum corners and radical parlors and vet him back at his brilliant essays. W« always open a new mystery by Ellery Queen (a pansy pseu- donym) by mistake. Something about the titles of his books or their ap- pearance make us forget how we'd tried the last one and found it sour, even tho the author has a clevernes at constructing fair mystery puz- zles. But once we get reading it all sweeps back on us how (a) Ellery Queen (also the hero-detective) is an | imitation Philo Vance; (b) he makes offensive remarks beginning “By the shades of As > (c) he wears pince nez gla: (d) he carries a vest pocket chemical set; and (e) he always succeeds in giving us ex- actly the ne pain in exactly the same spot. “The Greek Coffin Mys- tery” is Ellery’s latest nullo. —Tep Sua Patriotism A Dialogue By Percy Crosby HE author of “A Cartoonist’s Philosophy” ex- pounds a common sense philosophy of the times. The first part of “Patriotism” is devoted to a discus- sion of Shaw and Gandhi and the general state of present. world conditions: the second part, to Pacifism; and the third part to Prohibition—which Mr. Crosby holds responsible for many of the un- naturally extreme ideas which dominate modern life. In a day when the world seems full to overflowing with strange and unhealthy things—racketeering, fanatical pacifism, political dishonesty, monopoly, crime, prohibition—Mr. Crosby believes there is but one course to adopt and that is to get down to the soil and dig a wide trench of common sense. $2.00 PERCY CROSBY—Publisher DISTRIBUTED BY G. P. Putnam’s Sons—2 W. 45th S SIDNEY 8S. LENZ” Book on C ract Bidding The 1-2-3 24 Pocket Size — Thumb in- NJ dexed for ready reference— HOUR TEST Every point) of Contract a) day ae THE: Lest Bidding carefully illustrated ‘rate it with other hot opposite each page of text. i bmlorls SOnvEE Send for your copy now. Only $1.10 including postage. JUDGE MAGAZINE, I tvense. shop, nd not far __18 East 48th St, New York City | ts of Broadway. IN BOSTON The Hotel Kenmore Your distinctive Boston Address 400 Luxurious Rooms —each with Bath -Tub-Shower jes $10 and up pe coneaniealh HOTEL = EXINGTON wis Lexington Ave. at 48th St. hich emerges New York City ‘resident CHAS, F. ROCHESTER, General Manager comicbooks.com