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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, September. 14, -1962
Italian sunlit
island of seasons
ONE DAY TRAVEL
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Anyone in the market for a new island in the Mediterranean will find half a dozen floating like satellites in the sea around Elba. The gem of these bits and pieces which make up the Tuscan Archipelago is Giglio, 40 miles south of Elba and 11 miles off the Italian mainland.
An island of sun, serenity and seafood at shoestring prices, Giglio is often compared tc its smaller southern cousin, Capri. While Capri has been the darling of the international set for many decades, Giglio has yet to be discovered by foreign tourists. This pristine charm is now Giglio's greatest asset, but the day is not far off when the outside world will come to call. New villas and cosy inns are rising beside the sea and a few of the rough dirt roads have been paved.
FISHING FROM WINDOWS
Although Giglio is still an unspoiled Eden, the island is less than half a day away from Rome, which is linked to New York in less than half a day by Pan American World Airways Jet Clipper. The train fare for the 100-mile journey north from the Italian capital to Porto San Stefano on the Tuscan coast is $1.60 one way, and the fare to Giglio on a shuttle yacht is
exactly 64 cents.
Along the harbor are the three main hotels of Giglio Porto Newest is the Saraceno, built on the ruins of a Roman villa, so close to the sea that guests can cast for whiting and red mulle from their bedroom windows.
The best seafood on the island is served at the Pergola, another waterfront hostelry at the oppo site end of the harbor. Here guests can sample a fish soup called "zuppa di pesce alia gig liese," made of everything in the sea including baby octopus Cold lobster, soaked in olive oi and sprinkled with freshly ground pepper, is another succulent dish. The cheapest of the Porto inns charges just under $4 and the most expensive is $6 per day during the summer for room, meals and a carafe of red wine.
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The wine on Giglio, incidentally, has been famous since the day Stendhal, the French novelist and gourmet, singled it out for praise. Stendhal is also credited with having nam/ed Giglio the Mermaid's Isle. The residents claim that the mermaids are indeed visible after an ample sample of the heavy-bodied red wine from the vineyards in the hills.
The most secluded hotel on Giglio is aptly called the Heritage, perched above a tiny bay, This hideaway, popular with skin divers and fishermen, is accessible by boat from Giglio Porto. When the sea is rough, guests bound for the Hermitage must make the approach via a narrow goat track over the steep cliffs. The effort, however, is worth the risk, for the hotel is a dream of beauty with private sun decks and a magiiifi-cent view of the sparkling sea below.
Another sequestered cove on the island is Campese, 24 cents via bus or taxi from the waterfront of Giglio Porto. Campese, set oh an arch of crystalline feand sloping gently into a bright blue sea, has one hotel called the Albergo Campese and a dozen tiny pensions where the rates dip as low as $2 per day with meals. Campese is just about as away-from-it-all as one can get wth no radios and no billboards. The only electricity is in the hotel which has its own generator.
The night owls on the island congregate in a few cafes and bars, where the fare is ice cream, coffee and wine.
NEAR MONTE CRISTO
Giglio is an ideal-base for exploring the other tiny islands in the area-z^wo miles to the south is Giannutri, a summer resort for the Romans 2,000 years ago. The landscape is still peppered with the ruins of lavish Roman villas and baths built of multicolored marble.
The rocky island of Monte Cristo with its memories of Dumas also looms just across the waves from Giglio. Once the summer residence of the Italian royal family, Monte Cristo is now being considered as the site for a country club.
All of these islands served as prisons and pirates' lairs in days gone by. Now, these scenic fragments in the Tyrrhenian Sea are attracting a trickle of tourists, but tomorrow they may well be the most coveted cor-ners of the mao.
B'NAI B'RITH WOMEN CENTENNIAL CHAPTER
No. 1 0 2 2 had their first meeting at the home of Mrs. M. Enkin, Suite No. 260, 2291 East 49th Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 13. For rides, Mrs. H. Vines, FA. 5-0412 was called.
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CHAPTER NO. 77 will be unable to hold meetings at the old Community Centre for the time being and no plans are being made at this time for any meetings un*'I th New Centre opens. executive meeting
will be neld at the home of Mrs. Freda Miller, 936 - 25th W., Thursday, Sept. 20 at 8.00 p.m.
PACIFIC CHAPTER NO. 763,
first general meeting will be held at the home of Molly Glotman, Monday, Sept 17, at 8:15 p.m. A very interesting programme has been arranged when a short film on Community Chest and Council Red Feather Agencies will be shown.
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LADIES AUXILIARIES BETH ISRAEL SISTERHOOD
annual membership luncheon
will be held Thursday, Sept. 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the synagogue auditorium. Luncheon is free to paid-up new i^mber^, ^September Circle leader, Mrs; ^.'^bin is director and convenor will be Mrs. Ed. Mallek. The program is a skit entitled "Presenting Our Ofiicers in ^ster-hoodland", directed by Mrs. T. Goldman, Mrs. G. Silberberg, and Mrs. G. Thompson, and featuring members of the Sisterhood Board.
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PERETZ SCHOOL P. T. A.
will hold a membership tea on Thursday, Sept. 20, 8:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Sam Fox, 67'28 Ash St. Installation of officers will take place and Mrs. Searle Friedman will read selected humorous stories.
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SCHARA TZEDECK SISTERHOOD will hold an opening "Welcome Luncheon" on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 11:30 a.m. Convenor is Mrs. Sam Schach-ter. Time is one hour earlier than usual to co-operate with the New Centre Fashion Show scheduled the same afternoon.
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Keel and your reporter won the International Trials with a good edge, but they did not escape all the disasters that the cards ci^eate.
NORTH (Keel)
S. 87'5
H. AK109832
D. Q62
C. —
EAST
S. K106 H. — D. 3
C. AQ10987542 (Divinsky)
by
Pros. N. Diviiisfcy
WEST
S. AQJ93 H. J64 D. 975 C. KJ
SOUTH
hand and led. the. high heart. West trumped this in dummy, pulled trump and ran 9 stalwart | clubs, making 7. An interesting problem to hand: |
NORTH
S. K2 H. 1072 D. 43 C. —
S. 42 H. Q75 D. AKJ1084 C. 63
Both sides vulnerable*
Divinsky West Keel East
ID IS 2H 4C
Pass 4S 5H 5S
Pass Pass 6H 6S
Pass Pass Double Pass
Pass Pass
WEST
S. J43 H. — D. J7 C. J4
EAST
S. 976j H. 4 D. 9891 C. —
South opened the bidding on a very borderline hand because he had a good rebiddable suit; because if he passed he might never get to bid at all, the opponents might get smoothly to 3 NT, and Keel might not lead a diamond; and finally South wanted to interfere, with little risk. Nonetheless a pass could not be considered incorrect on this hand.
West had a reasonable spade overcall. Keel decided to move slowly and East also muffled his enormous nine card suit fwith the relatively modest 4C bid.
Both 5H and 5S cannot be defeated. The only slam that cannot be defeated is 6C, but East got into the "rhythm" of bidding spades.
Keel now had a difficult opening lead to make. He wavered back and forth between a low diamond and the K of hearts. If he had led the diamond South would have had nothing to return except a club and Keel could have trumped that arid defeated the contract. After picking out the 2 of diamonds Keel finally put it back in his
SOUTH
S. 1085 H. 6 D. Q C. Q2
Hearts are trumps. South isj to lead. HofW shall N-S play sol that they fwill win all the tricks?! Solution next week.
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