Word: billiards
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...actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies who ask him to smile. When he obliges, they always exclaim...
...clubs have sizeable club-houses with varying degrees of elegance. A library, billiard tables and a well-stocked bar are standard equipment. Before a required board rate was set by Harvard, most of the clubs served lunch and dinner each day. Today they usually serve a couple of lunches and a Wednesday night supper each week...
...Daisy's dance floor is surrounded by tables and black leather armchairs that swivel-for obvious reasons. Handsome crystal chandeliers illuminate the bar, an elaborately carved pool table graces a paneled billiard room where baseball's Leo Durocher conducts a highly oral brand of psychological warfare against such regulars as Actor Peter Falk. After the 2 a.m. curfew on drinks (but not dancing), free coffee and fresh fruit are provided. But no other food is ever served and no money changes hands; members sign their bills at the end of the evening. On Saturday nights, the Sunday papers...
Somebody once said that "proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth." If so, the place to study late-stage delinquency last week was Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, site of the World Pocket Billiard Championship...
...poolroom owner, Joe learned the game at four, won the junior world championship at 12, the armed-services title at 23. Then he bought a butcher shop, did not touch a cue again for 17 years. Two years ago he broke out of retirement, took a job managing a billiard parlor in Jackson Heights, N.Y. "I saw the way the game was growing," he says, "and I decided to try again." Last month he ran a record 150 straight balls in a tournament at Burbank, Calif., and last week he won eight games in a row before losing...