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Pool playing is becoming respectable again. The recent film, The Hustler, may have done little to elevate the game's social position, but it demonstrated to millions its hypnotic appeal. A memorable photograph of Britain's Queen Mother neatly pulling off a southpaw shot did wonders in selling the game to women. But pool's biggest push has come from bowling...
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...
...Master of Dunster House broke up a pool game Tuesday as a professional "hustler" was winning $515 from an undergraduate. Two Dunster residents previously involved with professional gamblers had invited the hustler and card-shark friend into the House...
...Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...
Hollywood prejudice is unlikely to break down all the way in one year, so the odds are that the winner will be one of the other four nominees-Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) or Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Sophia's work in Two Women is more than comparable to any in that list, and she is going to fly 6,000 miles on the chance that Hollywood has the courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture...