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Three tournaments in indoor sports for Freshmen have been scheduled for the winter season in the Union. Pingpong, pool, and billiard matches will be played, with a silver trophy as the prize for the champion in each division. Entries for the contests close on December...
...Author. An English Jewess, Gladys Bronwyn Stern Holdsworth was born in London in 1890, seven years later wrote a play mostly because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy...
Frank Taberski, onetime world pocket billiard champion, nicknamed "Iron Man" for his coolness in match play, found his Schenectady billiard parlor on fire, fainted...
Died. Morris Gershwin, 62, father of Composer George and Lyric Writer Ira Gershwin, at various times a designer of women's shoes, bookmaker, proprietor of cigar stores, billiard parlors, Turkish baths, restaurants; after long illness; in New York...
...three best amateur 18.2 balkline billiard players live in Europe. Like billiard balls, two are light, one dark. The dark one, Edmond Soussa, 33, is the youngest. A full-blooded Egyptian, he was born in Cairo, now makes his living in Paris as an interior decorator. He plays a careless, temperamental game. Says he: "I hate billiards and play it only for my country...