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...duty to report that one mosque in Bukhara has been converted into a poolroom, not very handsome, and that Samarkand, the pivot of the old Silk Road to China, has traffic lights more or less like those on Fifth Avenue...
First Touch of Fame. The Kid from Harlem gave the Eatons a rough time. She hung out in a poolroom. Her table manners were so bad that the Eatons made her eat in the kitchen ("She was underfed, and it took almost a year to fill her up properly"). At first, 19-year-old Althea could not even qualify for the freshman class in high school. But she worked sternly, and she finished among the top ten in the graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea...
Lest I be misunderstood, let me hasten to add that the point of this story is the importance of brainpower-not the place of the poolroom in a young man's success. Dean Wooldridge was the "Big Red" of the brain squad...
Absence of any real controversy probably means only that The Harvard Union, both as an idea and as a building, has settled into a comfortable rut; Gen. Ed. A Offices replace the eighteen-table poolroom in the basement, and a broom-closet replaces The Harvard Monthly on the top floor. Harvard Utility has conquered "Harvard Democracy...
...small city in Italy. In body they are full-grown males, but at heart they are just big bambini. Though finished with school, they cannot quite bring themselves to take jobs. Supported by indulgent families, they sleep till noon, spend the rest of the day at the poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing to do but mambo along the sidewalk, or just grow sideburns. At night they get drunk on money cadged from their working sisters, and tiptoe delicately...