Word: wynn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Centerfielder Jim Wynn, 24, makes fans think of Willie Mays with his acrobatic catches, bats .248, about 30 points below his potential. Manager Grady Hatton has been quietly drawing sharp performances from Pitchers Dave Giusti (9 wins, 5 losses this year) and Mike Cuellar...
...musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...
...Timer. Fred Allen once called Wynn the funniest visual comedian of the day - and so he was. He ate corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...
...didn't want to get out of those funny clothes he'd been wearing for 50 years," recalls Keenan. "He'd say, 'Oh, I couldn't do that to my public.' And I said, 'What public?' " That did it. At 70, Wynn began a new career. He played a beat-up old fight trainer in TV's Requiem for a Heavyweight, soon was getting calls for films. He was an aging broadcasting executive in The Great Man, the old dentist in Anne Frank, and Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins...
...Died. Ed Wynn, 79, the "Perfect Fool"; of cancer; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...