Word: canasta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million today, not counting the millions who study newspaper bridge columns but never take a card in hand. Over the same span, the number participating in American Contract Bridge League tournaments has exploded from 5,000 to more than 75,000. Having survived the now waning gin and canasta booms, bridge is moving ever-faster out front as the U.S.'s No. 1 card game...
...King Carol, who lies buried in the church's pantheon. A widow since 1953, blonde, green-eyed Magda was Carol's faithful companion in palace and in exile for more than 30 years, now lives quietly at the villa they once shared in nearby Estoril, avidly plays canasta with a small circle of friends...
...older princes, afraid to partake of the joys of the casino while King Saud was around, spent their time in their hotel rooms playing gin rummy and canasta at 10? a point. As they played, a shapely maid dropped around to deliver a cake. In less than a minute, she was back down in the hotel lobby, aflame with blushes. "The big one with the beard," she stammered, "he told me to take off my sweater." "I cannot understand," said one of Baden-Baden's hotel managers, "why there are no women in the party. I hope there...
...periods or outside of hours?" ¶ "Are classrooms equipped with TV sets so the whole class may watch the World Series? Don't laugh. This happens on specified grounds that the series is a part of the world we live in. So, it could be argued, are nightclubs, canasta, and . . . The question is: Are such blessings as TV used to educate or distract?" ¶ "What about 'field trips'? Are all the grade-school junkets to the bakery and print shop essential to the training of your child's mind? When a peripatetic 'social studies...
...biggest stir in the U.S. this week is an attractive, 33-year-old Pueblo, Colo, housewife named Virginia Tighe. Millions of Americans know her in another personality as Bridey Murphy, the necromantic heroine of The Search for Bridey Murphy who has made reincarnation a fad more entrancing than canasta or flying saucers...