Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brow darkened. "Mister, we may be foreign students, midwestern plains boys, and Bronx yoyos--wonks, if you will. We know we don't have much of a place in the clubrooms or at the billiard tables. But our place is here, worrying about the future, concerned about bombs and the men who push the buttons. You see, we're doing something. We care." He brushed away a tear...
...morning last week, in his 25-room Palm Beach mansion, where he spent three months each year, Bob Young started his day in routine fashion. He finished breakfast, casually went upstairs to the third-floor billiard room, where he usually played each day after breakfast. But instead of playing billiards, Bob Young took a double-barreled 20-gauge shotgun and sat in a chair. Carefully he set the gun between his knees, placed the barrels against his head, and pulled both triggers. He left no note, and shocked friends could only ask in amazement: "Why?" But close associates could readily...
Festooned with paper streamers that almost gave the scene an air of capitalist merriment, Poland's billiard-bald Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and his pearl-neck-laced Actress-Wife Nina danced without much abandon. Their restrained revelry did little to heat up a state ball on the first night of this year's Warsaw Carnival...
Staffers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch puzzled last week over a change in chairs. Illinois-born Irving Billiard, 52, a 30-year P-D veteran, stepped down as chief of the editorial page to become an editorial writer. His replacement: Editorial Writer Robert Lasch, 50, former chief of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial page, who was brought to the paper by Billiard seven years...
Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 44, announced that the change was "administrative" and reflects "no change in editorial policy." Why the shift? Said Billiard, nodding in the direction of Pulitzer's office: "You ought to get that from the White House." But neither Pulitzer, Lasch nor Billiard would say another word. One insider's explanation: though Lasch is considered "a political twin" of the pro-Stevenson, anti-Eisenhower Billiard, he has taken a more gingerly tack in pursuing his views with a reluctant Pulitzer. This would mean that while the tenets of the paper's liberal policy...