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Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...
...Captain Billiard Hughes has the cagiest, most mature game on the squad. One of his main assets is the ability to size up accurately his opponent's weaknesses. Consequently his cool play generally improves as the match progresses...
Next year's Nieman Follows will be chosen by two newspaper editors and one Washington columnist in addition to the three permanent members of the selection committee. Columnist Marquis Childs, Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Cleveland Press, and Irving Billiard, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have accepted appointments to serve on the selection committee...
...made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned to the U.S. at the end of the war. He planned to settle down in his rambling, unpretentious home in Glendale with its stretch of lawn and its' big recreation room containing a billiard table and a easeful of ribbons won by Sawyer horses and stock at state and county fairs...
...cold, hard soil for evangelism. In 1880, General Booth's devoted and indefatigable disciple, George Scott Railton,* had landed in Manhattan at the head of seven female soldiers. He moved into Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theater, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery and started to preach. But America, like England, received the hosts of William Booth with hostility...