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Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy. A double-deck card game called Canasta had spread over the hemisphere. In Buenos Aires, citadel of the game, Canasta had progressed from a diversion to a rage...
This newest fad is a riproaring, high-scoring game of the rummy family. It combines the melding features of pinochle, the building principle of gin and some of the partnership elements of bridge. What a Canasta player needs most is endurance...
...manager of each visiting team gets an elaborate questionnaire from the Key about two weeks before the game that asks about the players' whims and wishes, covering almost all things except perhaps whether they prefer whiskey to gin...
...from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. Going to bed is no escape, either: fresh-laundered sheets may have bits of cornstarch sticking to them; the bedroom chair may have been put together with fish glue. If a man drinks gin, he may suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg...
...hour hop across the South Atlantic to Dakar, plane riders learned how uneventful a trip could be: in hours of staring out the window, a pair of rocks in mid-Atlantic called Peter & Paul was all there was to see below. They talked, drank cocktails, ate from trays, played gin rummy, and waited for the ocean to end at Dakar. Some flew the new air trade route south to "Jo'burg" (Johannesburg). Others went north to Lisbon where they found the almond trees blooming by day and the mournful fado echoing in the cafes at night...