Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amphitheater at the University of Michigan, the eyes of 200 scientists were focused on a billiard table. The greatest billiard player of them all, Willie Hoppe, dressed in a dinner jacket and cool as a master surgeon about to operate, stood ready. But first there was a lecture from Engineering Professor Arthur Moore, a billiard player for 30 years, on his six years' experiments to make a science out of a sport. Willie Hoppe's English on the ball was not less understandable than Professor Moore's English on the theory...
...Master swordsman Rene Peroy is still willing to cross foils with all challengers, despite the fact that he has been winning amateur and professional fencing laurels for almost half a century...
...their own thinking and who, all too often, are swept away by indiscriminate housecleaners. But what can guarantee Communist conduct in democratic activities? Only the greatest vigilance prevents a tightly knit minority, well-trained in political techniques, from feeding on the indifference of the moderates until it emerges as master of policy and direction. Many youth groups such as the American Youth for Democracy have maintained their programs but lost their backing because idealism in accepting Communists gave way to apathy in routine dealings with them. Disaffected members of these chameleon-like organizations claim that the price of idealism these...
...hates to know the time of day (it is always later than he thinks), Caniff gets to his studio late in the forenoon, spends his daylight hours writing with his right hand, drawing and drinking coffee with his left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much to say when her talkative...
...chopped his game from the 90s to the 70s and become golf pro at the Southern California Golf & Country Club. When he became a fulltime playing pro last year, his tee shots were usually long & straight, his irons still wobbly. But on the greens, he had a master's putting touch. "The only bad habit I've picked up in golf," says he, "is getting fat." He now weighs 195, about 40 pounds more than his tennis weight...