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Last week at Long Island's $2,000,000 Bayside High School, Prince Nawaf, wearing flowing robes and white desert headdress and followed by an interpreter, stepped out of a T.W.A. limousine. Principal George J. Crane pumped his hand and beamed: "If my mother could only see me now, Prince." As photographers moved in for pictures, the principal suggested: "Smile, Prince...
This answer bore traces of the East's age-old reservation. Had Prince Nawaf understood more about the U.S. way of life, he might have been more enthusiastic. Principal Crane enlightened him a little. He said: "Within a radius of seven miles from this school there are more golf courses than in any other seven-mile radius in the world. You'll forget many things but you won't forget that...
After eight days of play, when Willie had beaten Crane, 2,000 points to 916, a fan who tried to console the defeated champion was told: "I don't need your sympathy or advice...
Naughty Word. Mosconi and Crane are unmistakably in earnest about their rivalry. But they both work for the same boss, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., largest U.S. manufacturers of billiard and bowling equipment. Brunswick, which has done a lot to make bowling respectable, is now out to do as much for pool. Brunswick is well aware that many of the nation's 32,000 pool halls are only fronts; they are often gambling and bookie joints, or at best, no place for a lady. B-B-C employees are fined $1 every time they say "pool"; they must...
...lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest...