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The Woes of Willie Mays” by Edward Linn, from the April 13, 1957, issue of The Saturday Evening Post
Giants Coach Leo Durocher has always maintained that the talk about Willie Mays’ “batting weaknesses” was nonsense. “All hitters,” Durocher declares, “are streak hitters. When Willie is hitting, he just overpowers any weakness he might have. When he’s in a slump, your little boy can get him out.”
A Willie Mays home run generally comes leaping off the bat as a line drive and just keeps rising into the stands. Manager Bill Rigney says his power is frightening. “He hit a triple against the Cubs that landed at the bottom of the fence in left center, about 470 feet away. And the ball hadn’t even sounded well-hit. I couldn’t believe it. When he pulled into third, I said, ‘Willie, you didn’t get all of that, did you?’ And he said, ‘No, Skip, I didn’t get all of it.’”
ELMHURST, Ill. (WLS) Some doctors - retired and working - are complaining they re being made to jump through too many hoops to volunteer their services to help get people vaccinated.
In Skokie, retired obstetrician-gynecologist Edward Linn speaks for many of his colleagues who have faced demands for fingerprints and background checks from county health authorities before being allowed to help with the public health emergency.
The Chicago Medical Society said in a statement: We view them as unnecessary, especially since our member physicians are licensed through the state of Illinois via the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR).
Willie Sutton, also called
Willie the Actor, byname of
William Francis Sutton, Jr., (born June 30, 1901, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. died November 2, 1980, Spring Hill, Florida), celebrated American bank robber and prison escapee who earned his nickname “the Actor” because of his talent for disguises, posing as guard, messenger, policeman, diplomat, or window cleaner to fool authorities.
Raised in a tough Irish-American district in Brooklyn, he was a veteran thief and hoodlum by the time that he was a teenager and, at the age of 21, was arrested and acquitted on a murder charge. After a prison term for safecracking (1926–27), he engaged in bank and store robberies. In 1930 in Manhattan, he robbed his first bank, and a jeweler as well, while disguised as a Western Union messenger. Two months and other robberies later, he was caught and sentenced to Sing Sing prison. In 1932 he escaped, moved to Philadelphia, was caught again in a robbery, and spent the next 15 years in Pennsy
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