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...most political crook in Boston, Whitey Bulger--brother of the most crooked politician in Boston, Billy Bulger--actually won the state lottery...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...They're never going to believe this one." -- James ("Whitey") Bulger, a well-known reputed Boston mobster, upon winning part of a $14 million Massachusetts lottery jackpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 12, 1991 | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...come to expect that kind of desperate oratory from a charlatan like Farrakhan, who usually concludes his remonstrations by saying, "All white America could be asked to die to equal the score." But even more responsible Black leaders have fanned the flames of resentment with attempts to blame "whitey." Of course there are white racists in America, but they aren't running the justice department...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning, and it was obvious that Bern had been murdered. Mayer was terrified of scandal. So Hendry volunteered to plant the gun in Bern's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shedunit DEADLY ILLUSIONS by Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...measure a baseball fan by his boyhood heroes. On the wall behind Fay Vincent's desk is the original artwork from Whitey Ford's 1953 Topps baseball card, a talisman of the bygone era when the New York Yankees symbolized success, stability and smug superiority. If Joe DiMaggio personified grace, and Mickey Mantle represented God-given talent, then Ford, the gritty little lefty ace of the pitching staff, was guile elevated to Hall of Fame standards. This quality is not lost on the baseball commissioner, who says with reverence, "He had the greatest pick-off move to first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Artful Pick-Off | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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