European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 laces if places the stars and stripes March dummies go for slams with of the Devil its the Only game in the world where a Dummy hold ing a perfect bust cant the name of the game is its jargon is a perfect bust is a Bridge hand with no a Dummy is Bridge vernacular for a hand Laid face up on the some Bridge including Oil millionaire Malcolm Brachman of Dallas and his professional Bridge Paul Soloway of converged on the cosmopolitan frenc Canadian metropol for 10 Days of cutthroat they belong to the member american contract Bridge they spent each for meals and playing Over 10 Days they dropped another million for shopping and entertainment during their All this for a Chance to grand slam their opponents at the recently ended a cols Spring North american players didst win Cash or in they were awarded prestigious master which gave them world theres a lot of fun and excitement Acyl official Matt Guagliardo told a visitor looking Over a rack of Bridge books in the lobby of a downtown hotel where the tournament was not everyone can there Here to a cursory glance at the titles on display tells you that Bridge players have a sense of humor the Bridge test your Trump play these hands with the pairs the forcing tickets to the Bridge involves four players divided into two each team attempts to score by offence or an auction determines a contracted number of a trick is when each of the four players in each game has had one the offence scores by completing the the defense scores by blocking almost 50 million people 20 million in North America play the like Brachman and travel the tournament circuit on an almost monthly dont talk to them while there Acyl official Bob Bonomi warns a Spectator watching Brach Man and Soloway going through their sting there like prize they dont even like being disturbed Between a physicist who studied at Yale and har is president and owner of an Oil and Gas drilling company called Northwest Soloway is a computer Programmer by but spends most his time As a professional Bridge partner and Tutor to wealthy clients like wears a faded Check ered Cotton shirt and Gray flannel pants with Black with his Blue eyes and Gray curly he looks like a thinking mans Archie Bunker As he applies a choke hold on the cards in his left Soloway looks almost a big Man in his Early he gazes absently at a Corner of the room with his lips puckered like those of a dead fish gasping for those who know him say he is a Bridge one of their a Middle aged Man with a scruffy Gray looks like a villain from a Clint Eastwood he wears a herringbone chomps on a Macho Stogie and rubs a Silver ring in the shape of a Unicorn on his left nerves sometimes games have been known to disintegrate into Yelling and fist fights Over illegal moves such As trying to communicate cards through smoke signals from cigars and Cincinnati Man has egg headed idea Tor record Bill Paulin wants to make the guinness Book of world records for balancing an egg on and he Doest care whether he gets any help from the Paulin said he placed an egg on end one Day last week on an office table in Cincinnati and that it was still standing 36 hours he says the folks at guinness Haven ruled out list ing his feat if Hes but that they might have to create a new said he heard an egg can be balanced on its end during the Vernal which occurs annually on or about March 21 when the Sun crosses the making Day and night of equal length world Dan director of the planetarium at the Cincinnati museum of natural laughed when asked about what it has to do with is or putting a Small amount of Salt on a table before you try to do Spence it has nothing to do with the Vernal that egg will probably just sit there until it rots or something knocks it Paulin i dont care Why its up just that it lottery addiction Means big trouble a woman who spent up to a Day on Michigan lottery tickets faces More than two dozen counts of Crim Inal fraud for writing bad checks to feed her her lawyer Valerie a Rochester House is charged with passing and transporting More than a Hal million dollars in phony checks and Money orders to spend on the she is As hooked on the lottery As an alcoholic is addicted to the her Stuart is under treatment for severe depression in an Ann Arbor he last she won about in the lottery but probably spent 10 times that Bricker this is he you could write a Book about its the most incredible Story Ive heard in 17 years of practising it got totally out of con were not talking about a bet every now and were talking about buying thousands or hundreds of dollars Worth of tickets on any Given Bricker said Law enforcement officials believe Kaczor has cashed up to in bad checks and altered Money orders since Early 1984 to feed her lottery charges against her Are pending in Washtenaw and Clair he a photo Chow time in Nuernberg Bah the Chow dog puts on his Best inscrutable look for the camera outside the Fairgrounds in Quern Balu is one of about participants in an International dog show in the bavarian administration officials join to combat booze top singers Chr tone von if congratulated by Runn Trup Heike Schater after winning prix Competition in Kunn Bachert eve met of members of the entertainment world Are joining the Reagan administration in a to Send the Public a message that it is no longer in to get High on booze or Gerald costar of the series Simon and appeared at a con Gressional hearing in outlining a Campaign against drug use and alcohol abuse in the Wake of the tragic deaths of a number of Mcraney said the entertainment Industry wants to let the Public know that it is no longer in to get for a Long he television shows and movies reflected the idea that drugs were fun and it was great to tune turn drop television and film did not Start this they reflected and for a growing number of it became Rin to take Mcraney told a Senate now he said Many celebrities Are campaigning against such abuse in Light of the exploding National problem of drug addiction and alcoholism including a number of prime time Tele vision Susan Kendall daughter of actor Paul said her family founded the Scott Newman foundation to combat drug use following the death of her brother six years ago from an Over she noted that a 1982 study found during a 12hour programming period on alcohol was referred or sold every 15 Larry who represents the pro writers and directors said the tragic deaths of a number of stars helped Wake us up and made us pay a lot More attention to this problem and our responsibilities to the Ameri can viewing also testifying was health and human services Secretary Margaret who previewed a videotape that carries the administrations Antidrug theme just say at the Washington press attorney general Edwin Meese also said the press should join in the Battle against i would like to suggest there Are no neutrals in this country War on organized Meese i believe that thousands of americans will understand this message if it gets through and will act to separate themselves from this blood