Word: canasta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of having in the White House a first lady who "smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly [and] until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties" [TIME, June 2] is going to cost Eisenhower a lot of votes...
...receive between a dozen and two dozen calls from political workers. He has had 550 letters (350 from Ike fans), and his mailman, says Shaffer, is getting a little tired of the whole business. "Even my neighbors," reports Shaffer indignantly, "have tried to influence me while playing bridge or canasta...
...when he is out to dinner and cigars are passed, politely takes one, pockets it, and cunningly extracts one of his own.) The man who upheld Prohibition as his stern executive duty now drinks two Martinis before dinner. He relaxes in the evening by preoccupiedly playing gin rummy or canasta with some of his group of loyal friends...
...Sunday New York Times, and bought it by mail for $16.95. She is a doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer-see NEWS in PICTURES). She smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly. Until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties...
...though clever, have not enough magic in their madness. Even Boston Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde as a battered African explorer turned lecturer; and "After Canasta-What?" daffily prophesying a card game requiring adding machines and traffic lights...