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...Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...
Waiting for their ships to be made ready, the 60 Soviet sailors seemed to have nothing to do but play pool, which they did exuberantly 18 hours at a time in the basement of St. Mary's House. Speaking no English, they preferred to eat at cafeterias where it is possible to order by merely pointing. A few of the braver ate in service restaurants, but limited themselves entirely to Hamanex (ham & eggs) an order internationally understood since...
...Harold Lloyd's miniature golf course, at Beverly Hills, Calif. The course is difficult for amateurs, the holes criss-cross each other and an artificial, pump-driven stream. Other features of the Harold Lloyd estate: an oldtime English barbecue, complete with kitchen, shelter and roasting pit; a swimming pool; four tennis courts; twelve handball courts; a miniature four-room house for Daughter Gloria...
...professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated. He did not arrest the two passengers. They were dead, from alcohol...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...