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...much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with Mr. Wiley. He was quietly, courteously brisk. While listening intently to an underling he might sign letters, scribble instructions...
...Ryan, now 64, is about to publish a book called A Stolen Invention. She explains that the suits are for $250,000,000, not $500,000,000; that she, not her husband, was the inventor. Mrs. Ryan also says she has invented puncture-proof tires and an air cushion to ease the landing of persons who fall from airplanes...
...Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then...
...first got into the game with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World's three-cushion billiard champion ten times, Layton's newspaper name is still "the Sedalia...