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...nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...
...Drottningholm last June, Bob Best stayed behind. His explanation: he wanted to marry an Austrian girl. But beginning last March he has at intervals spouted Nazi propaganda into a Berlin microphone for U.S. consumption. In these talks he has belittled U.S. news stories about Russian successes as "poolroom reporting by mouthpieces . . . jackasses," has violently attacked President Roosevelt as a "tool of the Jews." He has called the New Deal the "Jew Deal," and blatted praise of the German New Order ("I had never known what real freedom was until I came to Germany!"). Calling himself "Guess Who" or "B.B.B...
...Largest Daily Double ever paid off in the U. S.: $10,772 (for $2), won by an Illinois poolroom operator at Chicago's Washington Park two years...
...Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving...
Eleven days before the election, two uniformed policemen from Commissioner "Holy Joe" Boyle's police department arrayed themselves before Martin's store on Florida Street, two more went to the poolroom and restaurant of Negro Republican Elmer Atkinson on Beale Avenue. Anyone who tried to enter either place was frisked. Holy Joe declared that they were looking for dope. Negroes who protested were arrested, fined. Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over...