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...deciding 3-0 edge in games over the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland had two outs and a man on third when the batter drove a long fly ball to deep center field. Willie Mays made one of his patented "basket" catches. Thinking there was only one out, he then wound up and fired a perfect strike to Catcher Wes Westrum at home plate in hopes of catching the runner trying for home (who was already dejectedly trotting toward the dugout). A Cleveland sportswriter turned to the boys in the press box and said: "Well, we've finally found Mays...
...after the announcement of the second engagement in July 1917, Kafka writes Felice of his first tubercular hemorrhage. He seems to have broken the news with a sense of relief. TB was not only a way out of marriage but, he believed, nature's final judgment-the fatal wound caused by his warring selves...
...Catholic took particular pride in his long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film documentary unit, received a machine-gun wound at the battle of Midway, gathered evidence for the Nuremberg trials and retired with the rank of rear admiral in the Reserves...
...other group, but the discords were drowned out in the uproar over war and generation gap. Class, ethnic and geographical differences went largely unexamined. When kids battled cops in the '60s, it was overlooked that the cops were often the same age as the kids. Once the war wound down, the convenient abstraction, youth, began to crumble...
Died. Paul Williams, 34, soulful baritone and original member of the Temptations (/IWant a Love I Can See, For Once in My Life); apparently by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Detroit. Williams began recording for Motown in the 1950s with a group called the Primes, whose female counterpart, the Primettes, later became the Supremes. After leaving the Temptations in 1971 for medical reasons, he acted as the group's choreographer...