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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...
...testing the water with his toe, bouncing tentatively on the springboard, and obviously preparing to jump in any minute. Early last month, on the anniversary of his father's death, he got a big push-30 Democratic California businessmen gave him a private dinner at Los Angeles' swank Chasen's Restaurant and pledged $50,000 to back him in politics...
...White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies sweated daily as they hurriedly built shoddy houses...
...Athens' swank Grande Bretagne Hotel, someone slipped a note under the door of the suite occupied by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, the U.S. commander in Greece. The note appeared to have been written in blood. It bore the crudely lettered words, "Tomorrow you die," and a picture of a blood-dripping dagger...
Across town in the swank La Touraine cocktail lounge, Conservative Leader Drew also worked on political fences. Flanked by two pressagents and his politicking wife Fiorenza, Drew gave a party for the parliamentary press gallery...