Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackie Gleason, the massive Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, once observed that poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table...
Laid low by a lump in his neck, ebullient Comic Jackie Gleason, 46, underwent surgery in Manhattan last week, rebounded with rotund resiliency and was soon eating and talking and eating...
Also, it was only a week ago that another full professor, Andrew M. Gleason, made a final decision to reject a position at Rockefeller Institute. Gleason said yesterday that the question of salary had never been discussed, but that he assumed Rockefeller Institute would have paid him more than Harvard, since the salary scale at the Institute is generally higher...
There is no instruction of undergraduates at Rockefeller Institute, and Gleason pointed to this lack as one concrete reason he preferred to stay at Harvard. But he said that Rockefeller Institute has a wider degree of interdisciplinary contact in the natural sciences than he had found at Harvard...
...Gleason said one reason for widespread corruption in Massachusetts is the "absence of a forceful or coherent policy on both sides--Republican and Democrat." This absence of policy, he continued, makes for a lack of involvement and a tendency to regard the State House as "a huge employment agency rather than a governing body...