Word: canasta
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Private Life: For relaxation, likes golf (low 80s), dancing, gin rummy, canasta ; likes a Martini or a Scotch & soda; smokes cigarettes, pipes, and especially expensive Panatella cigars. Hates dealing with household chores; likes loud sport clothes, good automobiles (he drives a Cadillac), science-fiction and westerns, comic strips (his favorite: Dick Tracy), and movies with happy endings...
...Senator in absentia in 1948, and was elected. In 1949, Grau having given way to Carlos Prío as President, Batista finally went home. Guarded by 20 soldiers, he lived at Kuquine, talking with politicos, playing canasta, and keeping in trim by working out daily on an exercise machine. There he bided his time until last month's revolt...
...precinct caucuses open to any voter registered as a party adherent. The caucus elects delegates to district and county conventions, which elect delegates to the state convention, which elects delegates to the national convention. Normally, the crowd at a precinct caucus wouldn't fill a table for canasta. But last week, some 18,000 voters crowded into King (Seattle) County's Republican caucuses. Said one astonished precinct committeeman, as 59 registered voters jammed his meeting: "Two years ago my wife and I had to go out and get two neighbors...
...Baruch, elder statesman, has come to be B.M.B., elder bootlegger? I have known Mister Bernie for quite a spell . . . he is still a veritable devil with the girls, and . . . completely without probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze get in your own backyard...
Private Life: Was divorced by his first wife after 14 years of marriage, in 1929; two daughters. Remarried in 1930. Relaxation: bridge, canasta, croquet, a collection of Van Goghs, Renoirs, Picassos, Gauguins, Winston Churchills...