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Billiards is a good game (1975)
From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1296","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"619","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"460"}}]] The billiards player is Albert A. Michelson, professor of physics on the University’s original faculty and the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize. {{PD-US}} Only a few years later (in 1932), Vanity Fair, the magazine of the sophisticates ( The New Yorker just getting under way), started publishing a series of caricatures by Covarrubias entitled “Impossible Interviews,” the one that comes to mind first being between Mae West and Dowager-Queen Marie of Romania. The University of Chicago had as yet no Nobel Prize winners by the names of George Wells Beadle and James Dewey Watson to decode the hodge-podge of genetic tape that makes us one, or to explain why Michelson, who when it came to games was a mini-Leonardo da Vinci, with a wide spread of gifts, was not wanted as a bridge partner.
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