We received 154 entries correctly identifying last month’s Fake Ad—including one from the winner’s husband, which is a first for us.
“The April Fool’s Fake Ad is on page 61 ‘dealing’ with the April 1 ‘Charity Euchre Tournament’ at 1960 Haber Street,” writes Jeff Bower. “Very clever: Alan Haber was the first President of Students for a Democratic Society in 1960. Revealing our cards, my wife Jayne Bower is depicted as the ‘Right Bower’ who won the Observer’s February drawing. (After 45 years of marriage, I confess she’s ‘always right Bower.’) Ironically, as U-M alumni who exchanged Christmas cards with SDS cofounder Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, we frankly favor the ‘Left Bower.’ Try to Trump that hand!”
For the uninitiated, the bowers are the highest two cards in euchre, depending on which suit is trump. “Don’t blame euchre for Trump!” Jeff Alson writes. “Euchre is an honorable game with clear rules and where no king (or queen) is above the law. The red and black cards long coexisted in harmony until the Orange Joker came along to disrupt. With any luck, he will be euchred (or discarded-to-the-dummy!) for the last time in November. My own euchre group allows No Trump bids, which appeals to my political sensibilities.”
Our winner, Lucy White, is taking her gift certificate to Zingerman’s.
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