Word: canasta
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...City's typically heavy (steak and trimmings), typically drawn-out (two hours) dinner. Back at work at 6 or thereabouts, he works into the evening, then spends an hour or two in a smoking jacket with a detective story or Beethoven on stereophonic hifi. He likes to play canasta and watch fights...
There are serpents in this artificial Eden. As foreigners, they are plagued by spies and boredom. As one character sums it up: "Too many ruddy parties. Too many wives-too much nattering over canasta, coffee and so on . . ." What is worse, there is "hanky-panky with the bag," i.e., polite smuggling under diplomatic cover and black-market trade in PX items. This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that...
...naps for an hour or two after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace: he works seven days a week. Almost every night he has guests for dinner, which is preceded by two martinis (the only time he drinks), and he follows the meal with canasta, at which he is a whiz...
...match of 150 rubbers, he and his wife Josephine, using the Culbertson system, would beat Lenz and any partner, using the Official System. Under Culbertson's relentless public needling, Lenz reluctantly accepted the challenge, chose as his partner hefty Oswald Jacoby, later famed as an expert on canasta and poker as well as bridge. Named as referee was Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, a West Point instructor and part-time bridge tournament director who rose to become Supreme Allied Commander in Europe...
...wildness while actually playing with hard logic. He has a habit of staring at opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship match to Italy last winter, Crawford is an inveterate gambler, plays poker, canasta, gin and pinochle for money, as well as bridge. Well supplied with the egoism that seems necessary to bridge greatness, he was once asked to name his ideal partner, unhesitatingly rasped out his answer: "Another John Crawford...