Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to the six gamblers in Jon Bradsaw's Fast Company. Pool hustler Minnesota Fats says, "The only way anybody'd get me to work was to make the hours from one to two, with an hour off for lunch...
...best thing about the book is the endless procession of anecdotes--some true, some apocryphal, and some obvious tall tales. Hear Bobby Riggs bitch and whine his way into psyching-out tennis champ Margaret Court. See Minnesota Fats make a winning pool shot a split-second before the floorboards buckle underneath him and he falls into his basement...
...recounts a lengthy monologue from Minnesota Fats, who harangued a pool opponent while clearing the table...
Four of swimmers--sophmores Shelia Findley, Mia Costello, Mary Quinn and junior Linda Suhs--left their mark in Manhattan. The mark was a pool record of 1:49.08 in the first race of day, the 200-yd. medley relay...
...then there is AIDS. Goldsmith repeatedly brings it up in conversations. He believes it threatens to kill most of the human race -- "it could be up to 98% of mankind." This champion of individual enterprise urges that the U.S. join with the despised Soviets and "pool their resources in a massive research effort to find a way to prevent the spread of AIDS." "The thing about Jimmy," says Olivier Todd, whom Goldsmith fired as editor of L'Express for favoring the Socialists in the 1981 election, "is that he's an English eccentric in the best sense of the term...