![]() ![]() The combination of pool and gambling started the clock ticking toward what was to come. At 17, Tevis joined the Navy, where he encountered gambling for the first time. It was Tevis’ first taste of shooting pool. Spending time in Lexington during his early youth, Tevis had become good friends with Toby Kavanaugh, whose father bought him a pool table to keep him out of trouble. His parents were Madison County natives and returned there with Walter in 1938, when he was 10. ![]() Though born in San Francisco, Tevis always considered himself a Kentuckian. 22, 1952, they were married.Īway from school and away from Jamie, Walter usually could be found at Gaunce’s Pool Room downtown. At 24 and 22, respectively, Walter and Jamie felt they were young enough to socialize with their students at the local drugstore soda fountain.īefore the year was out, on Dec. During football games, the pair sold coffee and popcorn in the concession stand. Jamie would accompany Walter at lunchtime on walks outside of the school, while he smoked and told her of his plans to become a writer. ![]() The two of them soon became an item, and everyone in town knew it. ![]() Shortly after coming to the school, he met Jamie Griggs, a recent graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and home economics teacher who also was new there. In spite of an Ichabod Crane look and often ill-fitting clothes, Walter Tevis became popular in the community. No one in Carlisle knew when the new high school English teacher showed up in 1952 what that teacher's future might hold. ![]()
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