Word: winn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They listen in to Willie Winn...
This couplet, chanted by Gregory Edward Toole (microphone name: Willie Winn), is an idle boast, for his voice carries no farther than 1,000-watt WAAF (Chicago) can send it-about 100 miles. Chicago hears Willie Winn every morning predicting how each of 96 horses will finish in the afternoon's races. And Chicago plays his tips...
...Chicago Irishman named Andy Frain contrived to get caught crashing the gate at the Kentucky Derby, insisted on seeing Derby Impresario Matt Winn. Then he interrupted Colonel Winn's tirade, took him to a window, pointed out how inefficiently the crowds were being handled: Here was a gate not being used; there a parking space in utter confusion. Whipping out a blueprint of the grounds, Andy Frain presently persuaded Matt Winn to sign over the ushering to him. For last week's running of the Derby (see p. 40), Usher Frain needed the help of 250 trained aides...
...Evarts defeated Sullivan 6-2, 6-1; Straus defeated Catlin 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Pettus defeated Eaton 6-2, 6-3; Coquillard defeated Cummings by default; Kaufman defeated Flickinger by default; Eaton defeated Watkins 6-2, 6-1; Kahu defeated Bernhard by default; Winn defeated Meier 6-2, 6-2; Pressly defeated Thoron 6-1, 6-4; White defeated Johnson 6-2, 9-7; Fox defeated Frisoli 6-1, 613; Lane defeated Medalia 614, 3-6, 6-1; d'Autremont defeated Scott by default...
...upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers...