Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
Card Expert Mrs. Ottilie H. Reilly introduced the game to Manhattan's Regency Club last spring, wrote scholarly articles about it for Vogue. The game has rapidly gained popularity in the U.S., but Hollywood, usually a fast town with a fad, is not yet convinced. Canasta was tried out recently at the Bel Air Country Club, and flopped. Reason: too intellectual...
...vote the Council tabled the charter of the new group, which is led by John K. Lally '50, until a full report has been made on the club system at Harvard. This will be done next fall at the earliest...
...Southerners Club was approved after a brief discussion in which Council members ascertained that there was no discrimination clause in the group's charter...
...sailing teams goes after the Ivy championship today and tomorrow at the Brown University Yacht Club when it meets seven other eastern colleges in a series of races split in half by a beer party tonight...