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A Boy in a Hurry. Willie Howard Mays Jr., a cinnamon-tinted young man from Fairfield, Ala., on the edge of Birmingham, has fielded, batted and laughed the long-lackluster New York Giants into a state of combative enterprise. A husky (180 lbs., 5 ft. 11 in), smooth-muscled athlete...
This spring half a dozen big-league teams stopped off at Birmingham (pop. 326,000) on their way north. Five fielded Negro stars. The Giants had Birmingham's own Willie Mays in center field when they played an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians. Negroes and whites alike flocked...
Durocher's club is the most intriguing aggregate in the majors. Willie Mays' return from the Army has seemingly done wonderful things for the team's morale and of course strengthened it greatly in center field. In addition, the old-time pitching big three--Hearn, Maglie and Jansen--have pleasingly...
¶George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader...
When the parade finally passed and the cheers faded away, the new President took his lady by the arm and walked, beaming, up the portico steps and into the White House. For gnarled old John Mays, the doorman who bowed them in, it was an old story: Mamie Eisenhower was...