When I watched today’s deal in a penny game, Unlucky Louie was East and held one of his usual piles of nothing. His expectation was about minus 650 points, and it got lower when North-South bid a slam. Luckily for Louie, South was Joe Overberry, who thinks it’s nobler to go down in pursuit of […]
Unlucky Louie blames his constant bad results on bad luck, despite all the evidence to the contrary. “Louie is trying to change his luck,” I told Cy the Cynic. “he’s been in his back yard looking for four-leaf clovers.” “He won’t find any,” Cy growled. “I happen to know he can’t count as high as […]
It was the first of the month — a time when no female is deadlier than the mail. I found Unlucky Louie in the club lounge, wrestling with a fresh stack of bills. “My sweet wife’s a human dynamo,” Louie groaned. “She charges everything she comes in contact with.” Louie might pay off his credit […]
If he dances well to whom fortune pipes, the player we call Harlow the Halo must be descended from Fred Astaire. Harlow’s good luck is unending. Meanwhile, we think Unlucky Louie once collided with a truck hauling mirrors. In a team match, both Louie and Harlow played at five clubs; they ruffed the spade opening […]
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