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After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...
Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, immaculate, billiard-bald Ninth Army commander, was the most rumpled guest at a victory-celebration banquet in Germany: Soviet officers honored him with a triple toss ceilingward, the stouthearted Russian version of "three cheers...
Sparkplug of the new program is clear-eyed, billiard-bald President Case, 44, who was dubbed by a Princeton classmate ('22) "the man whose forehead is most likely to recede." Slow-moving but thorough, "Ev" Case well knows that the success of the Core depends, more than anything else, on having a crack, wellrounded, flexible faculty. By his own steady example in his two and a half years at Colgate, he has impressed the value of these qualities on the older hands. For the future, he has a sharp eye out for men who consider college teaching an education...
Like the rubber billiard cue and the collapsible bicycle, the word Peoria has always been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
Stephen A. Day, Illinois' billiard-bald congressional spokesman for the Chicago Tribune for four years, explained: "We are wasting time when we expect Stalin to accept a plan of collective security. . . . Whoever heard of a dictator sharing his sovereignty?. . . Now [for] the real reason why I have been an object of attack by the President and his entire battery of New Dealers, character assassins and Communists. For many years, I have been an outspoken foe of Communism...