Word: craned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, prematurely grey at 33, Willie Mosconi stepped nimbly about the curtain-enclosed arena in one corner of Bensinger's smoky pool parlor in Chicago. At stake: the world's pocket billiards (vulgarly pronounced pool) championship. His opponent and archenemy was Irving Crane, the champion, whose 33-year-old face was even sadder than Willie...
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...
After eight days of play, when Willie had beaten Crane, 2,000 points to 916, a fan who tried to console the defeated champion was told: "I don't need your sympathy or advice...
Members of the board, who will serve in office for a year starting at the close the resent term are: James Bell '41 1L, Albert Blinder 2L, Frank Boyce 1L, Robert Burton 1L, Earl Capehart 2L, Frank Cohen 1L, John Crane 2L, George Esser 1L, Joseph Flom 1L, John Hennessey 2L, Richard Homans 2L, Sander Johnson 2L, DeWitt Kirk 2L, Henry Lopez 2L, William Lowry 2L, Joseph McGrath '44 2L, John McMahon 1L, Frank Milligan 1L, T. L. P. O'Donnell '47, 1L, Milton Prigoff 1L, Royal S. Radin 2L, Jerome Rappaport '47 2L, Marvin Sparrow 1L, Paul Temple...
...some pretty cranky anecdotes about life & letters in the U.S., to which the Colums emigrated in 1914. Mrs. Colum is still angry at people who "misunderstood" her critical volume, From These Roots (1937). She is none too sure of the merits of various others, from Amy Lowell and Hart Crane to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...