Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somebody once said that "proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth." If so, the place to study late-stage delinquency last week was Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, site of the World Pocket Billiard Championship...
...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...
...commute by car and-in some instances-boat. Rents at The Cove range from $185 for a one-bedroom apartment, to $525 for three bedrooms. On the outskirts of Los Angeles, the Penthouse apartments hover over the Pacific shore line, offer tenants a beach, a Gay Nineties-style billiard room, and an acre of terraced gardens with olive, orange and lemon trees...
...Francis was sensitive, touchy, and much more frolicsome than the rest of the Adams clan. Covering his life from age twelve to 22 and dealing mostly with his Harvard years, the entries are often solemn commentary on his vast reading, but there are also vivid accounts of drinking bouts, billiard games, and pretty girls who powerfully affected him: "Women have acted upon me by a voluptuous manner, to which I am unfortunately peculiarly susceptible." In a hurry to get married, he was balked by his elders until...
Saturday, April 4 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Britain's Grand National Steeplechase, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro as commentator; also the National Billiard Championships in New York. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Fourteen Hours, Richard Basehart wrestles with his problems (including Barbara Bel Geddes and Paul Douglas) while poised on the 15th-floor ledge of a skyscraper...