Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final smoke-filled night of competition, there were some 400 casually clad spectators in the blue tiered seats and only two players still in contention: Irving ("The Deacon") Crane and Lou ("Machine Gun") Butera. It was a classic match-up of the tortoise and the hare, introvert against extravert and experience versus enthusiasm...
Private Rooms. Elegant, arrogant Deacon Crane evokes the days of billiards in private drawing rooms, played by aristocrats in smoking jackets. In fact, Crane had his own miniature pool table at the age of eleven, a gift from his lawyer father. Ebullient Machine Gun, so nicknamed because of his rapid-fire technique with a cue, was even more precocious. He had his own table when he was only seven; that was when his mother died and the pool room that his father owned became little Lou's playroom...
Screenplay by CRANE WILBUR...
...They're very dangerous to play on." Deveta said. "A few years ago, a fellow named Ben Crane fractured his skull on the courts when he slipped on the wet floor...
...freshmen Jill Robertson and Ingrid Sarapuu of Radcliffe trounced Sally Hawk and Carol Majdalany, 6-1, 6-2, in the number one doubles. In the number two doubles, Cliffies Donna Brorby, and Maureen Crane, eased by Jackie Nienaber and Cathy Pomiecko, 10-8, in a proset...