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...poolroom owner, Joe learned the game at four, won the junior world championship at 12, the armed-services title at 23. Then he bought a butcher shop, did not touch a cue again for 17 years. Two years ago he broke out of retirement, took a job managing a billiard parlor in Jackson Heights, N.Y. "I saw the way the game was growing," he says, "and I decided to try again." Last month he ran a record 150 straight balls in a tournament at Burbank, Calif., and last week he won eight games in a row before losing...
Wandering through what is called the Harlem section of Albany, Ga. (pop. 59,000), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 33, paused to talk to clusters of Negroes on street corners, stepped gingerly into a poolroom and a tavern, visited a shoe shop here, a filling station there. He preached a theme that Albany's restless Negroes were finding harder and harder to accept: nonviolence in their drive to desegregate the town...
...preserved in the Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...
...Hustler. A morality play in a poolroom, brilliantly directed by Robert Rossen, vigorously played by Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason...
...Hustler. A morality play in a poolroom, brilliantly directed by Robert Rossen, vigorously played by Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason...