Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sallying forth from Tam O'Shanter's modernistic, Muzak-wired clubhouse (228 employees, a rash of bars, a swimming pool), Promoter May made occasional rounds of the course with a happy, proprietary air. Far too lavish to make a profit, the tournament's whopping deficit is being underwritten by May's firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been...
...group got a spiritual pep talk from the institute's music director, Max Helfman. He told them about young people turning to their religion-"Imagine, 80 young college girls in Bikini bathing suits sitting beside that beautiful swimming pool practicing their parshah [the part of the Bible to be read in the Sabbath service] ... I know some of you are asking, 'But why is a return to true Judaism so important?' I will tell you why. Because 2,000 years ago the Jews brought their message to the world and Christianity was the result...
...Crafts. All these interests keep Abboud busy from 7 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. (with two hours out for a midday nap). Nevertheless, he still finds time to enjoy such playthings as a stable of six Cadillacs, a string of Arab stallions, three houses (but only one swimming pool), a private plane and three Chris-Craft speedboats...
...Caesar was a problem child, Baiae, a few miles north of modern Naples, was Rome's ritziest seaside resort. There the patricians, attracted by the hot springs which gushed from the hillsides, built their sumptuous villas on terraces cut in the slope. Elaborate baths (hot and cold swimming pools with steam rooms, massage and floor shows) cleansed and entertained vacationing senators and consuls. The place acquired a highly questionable reputation. The dramatist Terence wrote: "At Baiae one never knows what the night will bring," and the poet Propertius warned his girl friend that "The waters of Baiae lead...
Turnabout. In Salina, Kans., George P. Kubach, 70, put his store up for sale in a newspaper ad because he was retiring to a farm, explained: ". . . For thirty years my place has been filled with farmers playing pool and drinking beer. What am I going to do on [my] farm? I am coming to town every day to play pool and drink beer. That's the life...