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Hobbs says Parker will probably set the boat today. "But right now it looks like Pete Sutton at how. Paul Ramsey or Art Cooper at two. Bill Mahoney or Fred Lane at three. Jim Ehrmon at four. Johnson at five, Dave Sawyier at six, Mitchell at seven, and I'll be stroking." Hobbs predicted...
...which helps needy youngsters in 46 countries, estimated that the strike had cost it $180,000. Britain's newspapers lost nearly $12 million in advertising: two of them, the ailing Daily Sketch and Daily Mail, announced their proposed merger-a long-discussed union doubtless hastened by the strike. Sutton & Sons, a seed company that does its business by mail, puts its daily loss at $24,000. Littlewoods, the huge football-pools outfit, has had to lay off 8,000 of its 12,500-man staff. Few doubt that there will be a wave of bankruptcies reported at strike...
Seven for Eight. The Wild-Goose Man knows all about cover. Until a few years ago he held another unofficial title: prince of the poachers. Son of a gypsy father who migrated south from Yorkshire, Thorpe was raised in Sutton Bridge, a marsh village of flight netters and punt gunners who thrived on wild-fowling. His grandmother, a formidable woman named Leviathan, was famed for her skill at pouncing on nesting pheasants and sweeping up both birds and eggs in her petticoats. After graduating from slingshot to birdshot, Thorpe began poaching in earnest...
...commercial promotes the bank's new Master Charge credit cards, the first in the state to carry the holder's identifying photograph. "They call it the Face Card," says Sutton, peering out from the screen and holding a card with his photo on it. "Now when I say I'm Willie Sutton, people believe me." An announcer winds up the commercial: "Tell them Willie Sutton sent...
...commercial was shot two weeks ago in Miami, near where Sutton is living while he finishes writing his memoirs. "He's a very charming, amusing and interesting man," remarked Banker Kelly. Said Willie: "It's an unusual relationship, all right, but it's a very pleasant way to make money." Willie wrapped up his role in front of the cameras in half a day and earned $1,500 for it. That is a lot easier than serving 17 years for robbing a bank...