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...stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three-cushion carom on the international billiard table...
...lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
Wild Harvest (Paramount) revives the once profitable Quirt-Flagg* formula: two high-skilled bums carom around odd corners of the world, working at the same jobs, tomcatting after the same girls, fighting each other, and unable to do without each other. Wild Harvest adds something new to the formula: this time the heroes are migratory workers, involved in the robust job of wheat harvesting with combines. The harvesting job gives the audience something novel and vigorous to look at, and it also gives the players something better to do than talk and make faces at each other. But there...
...Carom billiards is played on a pocketless table with only three balls. About 60%" of U.S. cue fans play pool, 35% play a variation called snooker, and only 5% billiards...
Unlike gentlemanly Willie Hoppe, the carom-billiard king* who appears to be looking at the ceiling while his opponent shoots, Mosconi and Crane eyed each other like two men trying to flag the same cab on a rainy night. Mosconi, shooting almost too rapidly, made runs up to 139. But when he missed he banged the table unbecomingly, sat down, and snapped irritably to spectators who stood in the doorway: "Come...