Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bernadine itself is a series of much too obvious situations. In the first of two acts, Miss Chase sets up her story with the care of someone balancing billiard balls on the edge of pockets. Then she taps each in; there is never doubt about which ball is going into which pocket. Buford Weldy, played by Johnny Stewart, is one of the destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy...
...Napoleon has had a seesaw installed in the billiard room, and he asked the Grand Maréchal if he had any idea what...
...others. Diane has a ball (doped-up good time) with all of them, but can't escape her own ritualistic premise: "There's nothing. There's nowhere, everything is empty." She ricochets from man to man in love affairs as monotonous as the click of billiard balls...
...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...
Japan's Masako Katsura, 38, is the first woman ever to try for the world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form...