Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HUSTLER (214 pp.)-Walter Tevis -Harper...
...Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill and pride of a real...
...Hustler has its faults as a novel, but opens the door on a world that books have not yet made commonplace. With his first novel, Walter Tevis (who teaches writing at the University of Kentucky) joins the company of such authors...
...supersonic delta-wing B58 Hustler, loping along at 650 m.p.h. 32,000 ft. over Texas, began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew...
...fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked up into thousands of fist-size pieces-remarkably enough, the first B58 crash since the 1,500-m.p.h. bombers were unveiled two years...