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Willie Hoppe, who made billiards once again a game of skill and a real joy to behold, rates seven lines in the vital statistics. Gushing, an athletic flop, gets a cover story-your sense of proportion is all out of whack. Another issue like this and TIME will be banned from the billiard parlors...
Died. William Frederick ("Willie") Hoppe, 71, courteous, peerless billiard master, a whiz at six who won his first world title (18.1 balkline) at 18, his 51st (three-cushion billiards) at 64, was, for most of his life, the greatest player in the world; of cancer; in Miami Beach...
...thing about elephants. After long confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary tries to reason with...
...played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball rolling and it goes right into the hole...
...best way to pierce these mysteries is to see how they affect the lunar probe. Such data alone will make the gadget a superb spy in space. It hardly matters whether it also becomes the greatest billiard shot in the history...