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 * It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals—along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasadh—and is similar to the Welsh Calan Mai.

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Ground Hog Day - Jan/Feb

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2017
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ISFDB: Limited Editions Club
 * Limited Editions Club (George Macy)

LEC #1 P The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver, signed by illustrator Alexander King ✅

Limited Editions Club, Complete Checklist
 * "S-7: Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. 1940. Introduction by A. A. Milne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Issued without the artist's signature due to his death before publication. Signed by Bruce Rogers, the book designer & typographer. Limited to 2020 copies. Issued at $15 Sept. 1940."

LEC #S-7 tWitW ✅
 * 2014 Pook Press ✅

NYHT 1933-07-30 pF7 May Lamberton Becker "Books for Young People" --explains the lasting power of English/British children's stories
 * Scribner's has published the play "Toad of Toad Hall", with EHShepard "The Wind in the Willows" forthcoming

publisher advertisement reported forthcoming in review of the A. A. Milne play Toad of Toad Hall (Scribner's, July?) MLBecker NYHT pF7 -07-30 (above)

1st US ed. Scribner's 1933-09 ✅

LOOK FOR THESE LEC at LCCN

Macmillan eds. -- reviews (have publ month and price)
 * Puck of Pook's Hill
 * The Observer -10-07 p9
 * Times of India -10-20 p8
 * Irish Times -10-26

Doubleday -- reviews (have publ date and price)
 * Chi -09-29 p8, L. Jeanette (brief)
 * NY Times -09-29 pBR593 "KIPLING'S NEW MOOD.: Fairy Stories of England That Must Have a Purpose and a Moral -- Puck and the Voluble Shadows." ! (ARWS, no price)
 * N-Y Tribune -10-02 p5

check newspapers for "A. R. W. S." and "A. W. R. S."

Scribner's (Outward Bound edition, v23) -- reviews
 * SF
 * Bos -11-09

2011-09-03 "Walsh"
http://www.bridgewinners.com/index.php/peg-kaplan/1071-terror-at-mid-america-center Walsh

With the weak 1471, I suppose Marty Bergen plans to suppress the heart suit unless partner bids it twice.
 * 1C 1D 1X 2D ; where 1X may be 1H, 1S, 1N

That judgment is not unusual with hand so weak and suit so long. (I agree with Josh D, however. ...

Some people would handle Peg K's example 4171 the same way. And the same point is at issue in some discussions or agreements about opening 2D,3D,4D,5D with a 4-card major. If the partnership has a way to show a 4-card major after the preemptive opening bid, or the 1D response to 1C, then they should not say that they deny a 4-card major systemically. (Where I have played almost all duplicate bridge, in or near Boston MA, people commonly say "tends to deny". It's used inconsistently but it does invite the opponents to follow up.)

You ask about
 * 1C 1D 1M 2M = four cards, game force (would-be reverse, pleased and maybe surprised to see partner bid M first)
 * 1C 1D 1M 2M = three cards, invitation (would-be 2N rebid without a 4th-suit stop)

As I recall, the latter is in Max Hardy's orange book Two Over One Game Force, and he implies or states that it is a recent innovation, after Mr. Walsh's retirement. You won't find it in [i]Five Card Majors Western Style[/i], his earlier presentation of Western Scientific bidding to scientific easterlings.
 * Amazon lists only the 1975 revised edition, the one I read a few years later. The cover image shows endorsement by Hermine Baron, Paul Soloway, John Swanson, and Dick Walsh.

Since my recall is so old, don't rely on it.

As I recall, in those two books Hardy frequently, perhaps even consistently, mentioned Western Scientific players by name, attributed specific conventions and treatments to Walsh, and indicated what had been added to the system by, say, Ron Feldman or himself.


 * Amazon lists only the 1975 revised edition of Five Card Majors,

2011-08-30 "Preempting then Acting Again"
http://www.bridgewinners.com/index.php/bidding-articles/971-four-choices==

BRIDGE WINNERS 2011-08-30 Breakin' the Rules -- Preempting then Acting Again

> "Let’s take a look at the types of hands with which it might be profitable to take such traditionally unwelcome action."

For a general treatment, not yet for Josh, here are some preliminary points. Preemptive opening bids are illustration at hand, not the general case.

1. Which actions by partner elicit cooperation by preemptive Opener? (none of the examples given, a preemptive raise to 3S and two Passes, but this theme has been neglected by ACBL Bulletin authors qua "teachers")

2. Absent such encouragement by partner, at what level is double Lightner? (example: 4C and above, including the first example given, where double is lightner & lunatic. Certainly not 2S, so this doesn't bear on discussion of the third example)

3. At what level is a preemptive opening bid two-way, in that partner should presume weak but opener may not be weak. (example: 4H above)

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afterthought: Does no one give false preference with 2-4 Majors and about 8 HCP? That's another reason, beside the marginal slam interest indicated below, for opener to describe any 6-4 that is worth forcing to game here.

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That's predictable if you play against me (far above). Trumps Jxxxxxx are a fluke but so is Bill Hall's AKT98x AKQx xx x with so much concentration. Even there I'm not sure I like the given auction.

Long weak trumps explain the upgrade from simple rebid to game-force opposite preference that shows merely xx. With most 6-4 and greater high-card strength, I would have some slam interest.