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Died. John Thomas ("Pappy Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know almost everybody from Diamond Jim Brady up & down, became the unofficial odds-maker of the betting world, a sort of one-man Lloyd's. Gamblers from London to Buenos Aires wired, phoned and cabled him before they aid their bets. "Over a period of 40 years," le once explained...
...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
Editor John Hersey of TIME'S World Battlefronts department walked into the office last week just seven days out of the Solomon Islands. He had flown the 10,000 miles from bumpy Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to the billiard-table runways of LaGuardia Airport in less than 160 hours...
...political stars that Democrat Franklin Roosevelt would some day have to come out for Democrat John J. Bennett for Governor of New York-though the President had fought Bennett bitterly in the primary convention. The only question was how? That called for the delicacy of a three-cushioned billiard shot...
...Portland. Nearly 50,000 men now earn $45-$115 a week in the shipyards at Portland, Ore. Nearby taverns do land-office business cashing shipworkers' checks on Thursday (for a dime or 20? fee), then selling them beer and the privilege of playing pinball machines. The Idle Hour Billiard Parlor cashes so many checks that it has installed a bullet-proof booth, with armed guards standing...