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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...
Homing Rockets. The fact is that the new power plants (turbo-jets, ram-jets and rockets) have thrown air tactics into unprecedented confusion. One of the few points of wide agreement is that guns will play a reduced part in future air combat. Their effective range (300 to 400 yards) is too low, and the airplanes will flash past each other too fast for guns to be of much...
Williams will provide the competition for the freshman tennis team his afternoon in the sequestered Berkshire resort of Williamstown. Blacker, Aldrich, Murphy, Thompson, Tangen and an undermined sixth man will play singles for the Crimson...
Monday and Wednesday the lacrosse team played against teams more enthusiastic than skilled. Today it returns from the world of soft touches to play a real opponent, Springfield at Springfield...
Springfield is in the New England Lacrosse League, as are Williams and Yale, the remaining one-two punch for the Varsity. So far the team's record in NELL play is three and one--wins over MIT, New Hampshire, and Tufts; and a loss, alas to Dartmouth...