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Brewster employes dramatically forced an answer. At the urging of their union (C.I.O. United Auto Workers), all but 200 of the day shift stayed at work, even after the night shift came on. Since there was too little work for two crews, some workers played ping-pong and shuffleboard, danced to the music of piano, brass and drum. The union sent in enough sandwiches, pies, doughnuts, coffee and soda pop for a five-day siege. Some of the stay-ins crowded out on the balconies, hanging signs: "We've Got the Tools. We've got the Ability...
Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...
...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
Last week St. Petersburg staged its eleventh annual shuffleboard tournament. Lined up to compete for the four national titles-Men's and Women's Open (open to anyone), Men's and Women's Closed (closed to anyone under 50)-were nearly 200 crackerjack shufflers. Unlike most national championships, this tournament was marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned...
...President George at Vienna, Ga. : "Porters should be called by some official title, perhaps 'Porter' or, why not call them bv their own names?" Introduced to New York's vacationing Governor Herbert Henry Lehman at Palm Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School graduate...