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...about such big-city problems as labor unions, jails, and sewage (Arco now uses septic tanks). Other nearby towns caught the atomic fever, began figuring on their share of atomic prosperity. The mayor of Pocatello (pop. 30,000) expansively predicted a population of 100,000 in three years. A poolroom owner refused $70,000 for his place ("That's when two fools met," commented Idaho Congressman John Sanborn...
...began his journey in the strict Orthodox Jewish schools of Russia. He continued it in the public schools of New York City, after traveling steerage to the U.S., living during the whole trip on bread because the ship's food was not kosher. Later, he worked in a poolroom to get enough money to go through City College, finally was sent to Harvard on a scholarship. In 1902, he joined the City College faculty...
...called "dismissed time" might prove to be the only 100% constitutional technique of religious teaching for public school children. Under this system, students are simply dismissed early one day a week, with no school checkup on whether they improve the shining hour in the local church, movie house or poolroom. Most widespread technique is known as "released time," which gives pupils religious education off school premises but with the school supplying attendance checkups and other active cooperation. By this week most schools on released time systems had decided to sit tight...
...taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...
...famed nine-cushion shot, in which the ball travels more than 40 feet. What baffled Professor Moore was that on the sixth and eighth cushions, the ball both lost and gained velocity. The fact is, Professor Moore discovered, that when Hoppe cued the ball with English-as any poolroom fan could have told him, though not in so many words-he gave the ball rotational energy as well as its usual translational or rolling energy. When the ball's spin slowed, the energy was turned into forward roll...