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...cavernous Junior Common Room; prominent professors are regular guests at concentration tables. The writing Seminar and Logos, the weekly newspaper, provide an outlet for House literati, and the Deacon's Testament has been revived at Harvard's only House yearbook. On the lighter side, Kirkland posseses four billiard tables, holds an annual Bierstube (German band and all the beer you can drink), and is highly successful in interhouse athletics. The House Committee is presently negotiating a mixer with two dorms at Wellesley...
...trouble! Right here in Windy City! The very reverend himself had taken up a cue in a West Madison Street billiard parlor in Chicago to try to shove a ball in a pocket. Looking like the fiercest shark in the pool, Nobel Prizewinner Martin Luther King Jr., 37, was making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
...script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad car replete with pool table, cues that unsheath to become sabers, billiard balls that detonate as hand grenades. But such gimmickery is simply cumbersome. Except for President Grant, who needs...
...face conversation. The interior walls of many a meeting hall in many a fancy local headquarters are of unadorned cinder blocks to recall unionism's hard-knocks days; chances are that more money has been put into the locals' recreation rooms, with air conditioning, paneled walls, billiard and ping-pong tables and bars (the staple still is beer...
...since he broke in as a bandy legged minor-league outfielder 55 years ago, somebody or other has been suggesting that baseball could get along fine without Casey Stengel's services. During his playing days, in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, he was variously known as "Billiard Ball Stengel" and "Casey the Clown" for 1) his hardheadedness in doing things his way, and 2) his penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact...