Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIQUOR-BY-WIRE will soon be a reality. Taking a cue from the florists, Manhattan's Beverage-By-Wire Inc. has made arrangements with dealers in 18 wet states to deliver gift liquor ordered by telegram...
Sacha Wolanow doesn't have to look like a cue ball to be different: his mysterious operations set him apart from most men. Last week he bought a housing development for $1,025,000 ($365,000 in cash), then dashed back to his office to cook up another million-dollar deal. The buy was just one of 76 similar apartment houses (some 2,700 apartments) that Sacha has bought since he appeared on the Los Angeles real-estate scene two years ago. He drives through the city in a $9.650 white Cadillac, has been known to carry...
...campaign together, listening furtitely to Adlai Stevenson's speeches and staying away from their neighbors." From now on, said the chairman, the Democratic Party should get its faithful in suburbia together often enough to provide moral support for all. Said he: "We ought to take a cue from the churches in this matter. They have long made it a practice to visit newcomers and invite them to church. Suburban business houses have a 'Welcome Wagon.' But we Democrats have been content to let newcomers arrive with no reception at all-and because they're left alone...
Died. Tom Reece, 80, who compiled a world record "break" in English billiards of 499,135 points (1907) after five weeks' faultless use of the "anchor stroke" (i.e., the cue ball caroms off the red and white balls jammed in a corner pocket, and rolls back to its original position for another shot); in Lancing, England. After Reece's marathon, the game's rules were revised to bar more than 25 consecutive anchor strokes, cutting Reece's best break under the new rules to 1,151 points...
Against the Liberal drive, spearheaded by St. Laurent's great personal popularity in French Canada, the opposition tried in vain to sell the idea: it's time for a change. Taking a cue from the election in the U.S. last year, Tory Leader George Drew did his best to create a Canadian counterpart of the Republican campaign...