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Lewis Purdy, county co-ordinator for the campaign, a tall, gray-haired businessman whom I thought must be a deacon, predicts that Wallace will win with 40-55 per cent of the vote and that Sanford will be forced to fulfill his promise of dropping out if he "couldn't beat George Wallace." Purdy lists his candidate's appeals, focusing on busing and economics. He mentions corporations but more directly "these multi-billion dollar foundations using their money to foment revolution and subsidize these way-out, left things." He raises the familiar, often accurate charge of press hostility and neglect...
...onetime Indiana farm boy who looks like an English teacher (which he was) and talks like a teetotaling church deacon (which he is). Wooden at 61 still stresses the coaching tenets he learned at Purdue under the late Ward ("Piggie") Lambert: "Get the players in the best of condition, and make them believe they are in better condition than our opponents, so they won't fold in the second half. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly but without hurrying. Get them to play as a team, always thinking of passing the ball before shooting...
Private Rooms. Elegant, arrogant Deacon Crane evokes the days of billiards in private drawing rooms, played by aristocrats in smoking jackets. In fact, Crane had his own miniature pool table at the age of eleven, a gift from his lawyer father. Ebullient Machine Gun, so nicknamed because of his rapid-fire technique with a cue, was even more precocious. He had his own table when he was only seven; that was when his mother died and the pool room that his father owned became little Lou's playroom...
...Deacon, now 59 and a Cadillac salesman in Rochester, N.Y., competed in his first world pocket-billiards championship match in 1937 and finished second to Ralph Greenleaf, the best pool player ever. Crane went on to win the world title five times between 1942 and 1970; he would have done even better if Willie Mosconi, probably the alltime second-best player, had not become his nemesis...
...record compiled by Butera, now 34 and a pool-hall manager in California, was accurately-if somewhat disparagingly-summed up by the Deacon himself: "The best he's done is the Pennsylvania championship...