Word: raconteurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Thomas ("Pappy Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know almost everybody from Diamond Jim Brady up & down, became the unofficial odds-maker of the betting world, a sort of one-man Lloyd's. Gamblers from London to Buenos Aires wired, phoned and cabled him before they aid their bets. "Over a period of 40 years," le once explained...
Last week, while Old Zup made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
This is a rich volume, one which is ideal for filling in an odd ten minutes. Like table talk with a learned and skillful raconteur, the book is both educational and entertaining...
Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...
...attack of shingles, Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Johns Hopkins might never have written his autobiography. And that would have been a pity. For, besides being the foremost urologist in the U. S., 70-year-old Dr. Young is a raconteur of parts. His memoirs, Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography (Harcourt, Brace; $5), bursting with scientific facts and exquisite drawings of urologic diseases and operations, make a lusty, gusty book...