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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...
...Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
...still holding tight. But equipment was suffering from lack of maintenance. As much as anything, it had been waiting to see which way steel would jump. Now it had its cue...
India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who promoted the show and missed no cue to promote India as the natural leader of the East, pitched the tone. Said he: "The countries of Asia can no longer be used as pawns by others...
...biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...