BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Among the many decisions made at the duplicate bridge table, adjusting your bidding in accordance with how well (or badly!) your game is going is sometimes among them. In a club game at the Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club, after three passes, herself, sitting South, opened the …
Op-EdBy Maggie Van OstrandThe Crookedest Christmas Tree There’s something obscene with spending so much money at Christmastime. It’s not like we’re the Three Wise Men hiking across the desert to gift the baby Jesus. I don’t even know what frankincense is, let alone myrrh. So let’s get down to the important stuff, like the Christmas …
Editor’s PageBy Alejandro GrattanRemembering A Christmas Past—and Ray Rigby For those unfamiliar with Ray’s background, he had served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa during World War II. Later, using his wartime adventures as an anvil, he hammered out a novel called The Hill. His screen-play of the same story starred Sean Connery, …
