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...will first play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After their match, each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway gymnasium...
...curvature and so never reach distant earth points where radio stations may be. By scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...
...four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...
Furthermore, it may well be remembered that Judge Ben Lindsey in his book on companionate marriage noted "the tendency of the younger generation to seek comfort and convenience." His meaning is dual. Unquestionably he was at that time aware of the cushion menace to religion...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...