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John Thomas Cain has three hobbies: snooker pool, beer drinking and rescuing bombees (score to date: twelve single-handed rescues, 44 assists). Playing pool one night, John heard the crash of a bomb, looking out of the billiard parlor saw a paint factory down the street go up in a stinking inferno of flames and fumes. With four policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell...
According to Laurie, the billiard room is one of the busiest places in the College. An average of 150 students come in every day to spend about twenty minutes a piece on either a pool or billiard game They are exceptionally careful with the equipment, which, Laurie claims, is the best he has ever seen...
...room has had a long and varied history. Designed for the express purpose of playing either pool or billiards, the room has its tables arranged far enough away from the windows so as to render harmless any change in temperature that might affect the cloth on the tables or the ivory billiard balls...
Such is the opinion of Benjamin "Ben" Laurio, who for twenty-two years has been taking care of the billiard room in the basement of the Freshman Union and who is well known to every Harvard alumnus since the class...
...this chamber Harvard and Yale once had a billiard match, which Harvard won, 1 to 0. And on the room's center table, table six, Schaefer and Cochrane played off the 1915 world pool championships...