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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...
...only thing worrying the Democrats last week was that Kennelly's sainthood might be too convincing for rowdy Chicago. Old Boss Kelly, who would soon retire after 14 years in City Hall, was at pains to tell one & all that Kennelly was "no bluenose" but a "square shooter...
State of the Union. Lively comedy of a straight-shooter who would like a shot at the presidency, and is saved from the party bosses by his clever wife (TIME...
...which ran sometimes, but "mostly I just cranked and cranked at the damn thing and then went and hitched up the horse." He was also the company doctor. During the bitter 1910 Colorado coal strike, miners stoned his children. Doc sent his family to Denver, strapped a six-shooter on his hip, grimly made his rounds...
...After the first few rolls, each shooter got consistently fewer & fewer hits...