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Last week in a third-floor room of Bensinger's billiard parlor in Chicago's Loop, chunky, flat-voiced Willie Hoppe, now a balding man of 52, still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come...
...Brandy staggered into the hut and collapsed to the floor, with arrows sticking out of him like he were a pin-cushion. Doc jumped toward him. 'Get me a red-hot poker,' he yelled. Then he grabbed at the arrows and yanked them out one by one. Brandy didn't let out a yelp, and only the muscles in his powerful shoulders, set hard as rocks, showed what he was going through. He was getting groggy, the deadly curare poison was getting him. Butch brought the poker, and Doc shoved it into the wounds. 'Cauterize them,' he grunted. There...
Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...
...papers. With a flop, veterans like Maney don't try pleading or high-pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...
...Most business and Government-guess-timators agree that in the first half, 1940 business will be down from fourth quarter 1939, but it appeared that one cushion which may pad the fall might be auto production. The fourth quarter of the calendar year is first quarter of the auto model year, a time when auto manufacturers justifiably overproduce in order to stock dealers. Overproduction of 200,000 cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars...