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...Church & Canasta. In college, more than half the class was of Republican background. Today, the ratio runs about the same-Republicans 56%, Independents 26%, and Democrats 16%. But 33% of the erstwhile Republicans have become Democrats, and 30% of the Democrats have become Republicans. One out of 20 men still votes Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard '26 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...their well-appointed homes (seven out of ten have radio-phonographs and washing machines), Harvardmen play canasta and bridge, and worry about war with Russia and atomic bombing. Only three out of ten go to church with any regularity, but six out of ten believe in God. One out of five has written a book, and one out of ten has run for some sort of public office-from justice of the peace to President (Eugene Daniell, who ran in 1932 on the Commoners ticket-a shortlived organization of Bostonians, dedicated to the promise of a living wage for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard '26 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Rector Ribble feels that he has his work cut out for him. He plans to use the returns as a guide in planning his future sermons. Meanwhile, theological arguments have been breaking up parishioners' bridge and canasta games, and Grace and Holy Trinity's post-Easter Sunday congregations have been running about a third larger than usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Opinion in Richmond | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Sic 'Em, Ned | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In an Iron Lung | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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