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...seven, Willie Mosconi was wan and trigger-tempered. In South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
Last week, prematurely grey at 33, Willie Mosconi stepped nimbly about the curtain-enclosed arena in one corner of Bensinger's smoky pool parlor in Chicago. At stake: the world's pocket billiards (vulgarly pronounced pool) championship. His opponent and archenemy was Irving Crane, the champion, whose 33-year-old face was even sadder than Willie...
...budget, Il Duce boldly ordered the then Finance Minister, Antonio Mosconi, to state last June that "for the present and during the economic crisis the Government cannot balance the budget." The Cabinet has released a provisional budget for this year carrying an estimated deficit of 3,087,500,000 lire...
Premier Benito Mussolini will not drop from his Cabinet Minister of Interior Benito Mussolini. He will drop, according to the announcement last week: Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi; Minister of Justice Alfredo Rocco; Minister of War General Pietro Gazzera; Naval Minister Rear-Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni; Minister of Colonies Emilio de Bono; and even Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano, whose son Galeazzo is the husband of Signor Mussolini's eldest daughter Edda...
...Great Britain an increase of $6,500,000, annually in her share of what the creditor powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...