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...Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest...
Thus brooded young Danny O'Neill, a minor character in Studs Lonigan, James T. Farrell's hard-boiled chronicle of a poolroom slob in South Chicago's vast Shanty-Irish district. Studs Lonigan was really the book Danny O'Neill had in mind, but all its 1,108 pages did not purge his memory of its hates and bitterness. So Danny himself became the subject of two later novels: A World I Never Made (1936), No Star Is Lost (1938). This week appeared a third, Father and Son, bringing the story of Danny O'Neill...
...other Romantics-her great-great-grandfather was Augustus the Strong, King of Poland. Her great-grandfather was Augustus' bastard son, the famous soldier and tactician, Marshal Maurice de Saxe. Her grandmother married the Count de Horn, bastard son of Louis XV. Her mother was the daughter of a poolroom proprietor. Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant...
...Bensingers are far from satisfied with their billiard business. Having cleaned up bowling, they think the great American poolroom, which has long had a bad name, can be reformed and popularized too. B-B-C is preparing new promotional schemes to do just that...
...years ago Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which makes 60% of all U. S. bowling-alley and poolroom equipment, vowed that the U. S. bowling alley should no longer be a hangout for the unwashed. Reasoning that where women go, men will follow, B-B-C launched a promotional campaign, persuaded alley proprietors to clean house, encourage female bowling...