Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a consecutive run of 2,000. At 18 he won his first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds his twelfth world three-cushion bilHard title (TIME, March 17). Along Willie's ivory-clicking way, he won 39 other world championships, and set exhibition records that may never be equaled (e.g., an 18.1 balkline run of 622; 25 points...
Last week, long since a living legend, Willie racked up his tournament cue for good. His "retirement" from competition will be spent in playing exhibitions for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the billiard and bowling equipment manufacturer that has sponsored Willie for 45 years. Although tournament players can now breathe more easily, Willie will doubtless go on dominating exhibition play. The old rocking chair that will finally get him away from the billiard table has probably not yet been built...
...worked my way through college and to a great extent through law school. And then, in 1940, probably the best thing that ever happened to me happened. I married Pat, who is sitting over here." The TV camera followed Nixon's cue, turned for the first time to Pat, sitting in profile with her eyes on her husband. "I practiced law," said Nixon as the camera picked him up again, "and she continued to teach school...
...girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know is that there is a delicious young sixteen-year old girl (the most popular one in town) who secretly loves him. These are the set-ups, pushed in with a blunt cue...
...Henry's Full House (20th Century-Fox) might have been entitled Quintet, for it takes its cue from the successful Somerset Maugham omnibus movies, Trio and Quartet. It is a grab bag based on five short stories from the popular, prolific pen of William Sydney Porter.*With five different sets of directors, writers and stars and with chatty narration by John Steinbeck. O. Henry's Full House is long on box-office names, sometimes short on the natty irony that O. Henry gave his trick tales of Manhattan...