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...Athletics-to play the alleys seriously. Competing in a game that has more active competitors (28 million) than any other in the U.S. and that makes little distinction between amateurs and professionals. Don Carter has compiled a record that is probably unmatched in any sport. He has been voted "Bowler of the Year" five times.He has won the All-Star Tournament four times. He was a member of the crack St. Louis Budweisers bowling team, and he was twice the national doubles titleholder. Carter has won more major tournaments (25) than any other active bowler,and he has won more...
...start. Says Harold Vineberg, who runs five establishments in Florida: "I've seen a woman who had never tried any sport get a strike the first time she ever bowled. That's pure luck. But, for that one ball, she is playing as well as the best bowler in the world. You can't get more than a strike. It's a big thrill, and it's a thing that doesn't happen in most other sports -where the beginner can't do anything right for a long time." Adds" Jack Vaughan, manager...
...desert sky, 9,000 guests milled and drank and watched an assortment of 64 entertainers ranging from acrobats and show girls to Stand-Up Comics Shecky Greene and Myron Cohen. The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That...
...chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk...
...clang shut at midnight and the walls bristle with wicked spikes. By day, a Proctor prowls around the University hunting for transgressors. Since tradition forbids the Proctor to undertake personally the sordid business of making arrests, he is followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually is--a good Bulldog can be relied on to catch an errant undergraduate in four minutes flat...