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After a while Hurley moved his pitch to the seedy confines of Promoter Jack Solomons' gym, one flight over a down-at-the-heels poolroom on Great Windmill Street. No one really believed that Kid Matthews belonged in the same ring with Cockell, but Hurley had the reporters mesmerized. Maybe Hurley had changed him into a tiger...
James T. Farrell has spent most of his writing life in the shadow of a Chicago poolroom hoodlum named Studs Lonigan. But while Farrell undoubtedly put his best talent into the creation of Studs, he has since lavished double the affection, energy and space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations...
...outlets. While a depressing share of these were just penny-dreadfuls at a quarter, there was also plenty of good reading. In this volatile market, The Confessions of Saint Augustine and The Universe and Dr. Einstein became bestsellers -alongside Mickey Spillane (1952 sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington...
Decoy. In Chicago, after an undercover man telephoned police headquarters to report that 40 men were playing poker and blackjack in a poolroom-saloon, Police Lieutenant George Mankowski raided the place with a flying squad, forgot to guard the rear exit, succeeded in nabbing only the undercover...
...weeks later, the pilot sneaked Mrs. Lassetter aboard a big Dakota transport usually reserved for the private use of Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...