Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stunners," too, had become a young lawyer-tall Warren Gamaliel Harding whose fine looks and big voice made as good an impression on men in billiard parlors as they did on girls at parties or buggy riding. While Daniel Richard Crissinger was building up a big practice, including the counselorship of the Marion Steam Shovel Co.,* and becoming president of the National City Bank & Trust Co. of Marion, Warren Harding was moving right on up in politics. He became a U. S. Senator and then, one summer, sat on his front porch and waited for his friends to make...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
...Warner's aptness with a billiard cue is doubtless partly due to his health. Never has he needed a doctor since the hour of his birth. His aptness at taking cues from passengers is unquestionably due to the 38 years he has spent at that major study of all Pullman porters, Human Nature...
Click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. Welker Cochran, 30, Hollywood (Calif.) realtor, had won the international 18.2 balkline billiard tournament at Washington, D. C., turning back among others Willie Hoppe, defending champion, and M. Felix Grange, of France, who had missed his vin ordinaire (TIME, March...
Whatever Hoppe's philosophy of the game it has shown its worth in the 32 years of his billiard experience. He began his career at the age of seven and since that time has been three times holder of the world title, the first time for an unbroken period of 15 years, from...