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...pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
Picture "John Bull." Now make him taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron...
...resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife as "the handsomest Secretary of Labor in American history." Acme News Pictures Inc. broadcast newspaper photographs of the occasion nationwide...
...Your gift, madame, magnificent-the handsomest ever bestowed on Rome...
Recently Tutankhamen, "handsomest of the Pharaohs," has enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...