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Died. Benjamin Edward Bensinger, 67, chairman of the board of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (billiard tables); of heart disease; in Chicago...
...faint click click, followed by loud applause, broke the tingly silence. Boyish-looking Welker Cochran strutted and grinned because with that last shot he had beaten grey-haired Willie Hoppe, 50-to-46, in 45 innings, regained the world's three-cushion billiard championship...
...embalmed body of Enrico Caruso, who died in 1921, lies in a mausoleum near Naples in a glass-covered casket wrapped in a U. S. flag and a green billiard cloth. Friends (including Tenor Tito Schipa) change the clothing every three years. Visitors report a steady discoloration of the tenor's face...
...reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries or bathing establishments, public porters, dirt-cart drivers, wardrobe concessionaires, charity entertainment managers, hand-organ grinders and operators of junk shops, junk carts or junk boats...
Civilized entertainment. Accent on Youth should please practically every class of U. S. cinema-seers except students or graduates of Princeton University. Good shot: Marshall's butler (Ernest Cossart) perfectly executing three difficult billiard shots which are photographed with out any faking...