In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

In his diaries, Williams wrote that he earned more in a British Gas commercial than for any Carry On film.

" Garfield earned a reputation as a skilled debater and was made President of the Philogian Society and Editor of the Williams Quarterly.

While a student at Williams, he earned the nickname " Gadg ," for gadget, because, he said, " I was small, compact, and handy to have around.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

Long had now earned a reputation, as Williams reports, as " a leading member of the progressive bloc in the Senate.

Beech Grove High School's " Marching Hornets " band program has earned four Indiana State School Music Association ( ISSMA ) State Band Finals berths in its history, during the long service of former director James Williams.

As a senior at Bremerton High School, Williams averaged 28. 7 points, 15. 5 rebounds, five blocks and five assists and earned McDonald ’ s and Parade All-America honors.

The symphonies earned Bax a reputation as the successor to Elgar, as Vaughan Williams, for instance, had only completed four symphonies by the time Bax had completed his seventh ( Vaughan Williams's fourth is actually dedicated to Bax ).

" The recordings " Never Again " and " Honky Tonkin '" became successful, and earned Williams the attention of MGM Records.

Williams had earned enough points during the year to qualify for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in Madrid ; however, she withdrew because of continuing problems with anemia.

She earned critical accolades for her performance in Tennessee Williams ' Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman.

He earned a Master's of Science at George Williams University in 1983.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Williams College in 1932 and continued his studies at Cornell University.

Eifion Williams, the club's leading goalscorer, twice won international recognition for Wales at under-21 level and earned Caernarfon a reported £ 25, 000 when transferred to champions Barry Town in 1997.

Williams has worked on the music of a number of films, including writing and singing on Phantom of the Paradise ( in which he also starred and earned an Oscar nomination for the music ); and Bugsy Malone.

He contributed lyrics to the Cinderella Liberty song You're So Nice to Be Around with music by John Williams, and it earned them an Oscar nomination.

Several of those players earned season-long contracts after being key contributors, including Anthony Tolliver, Chris Hunter and Reggie Williams ( all Golden State Warriors ), Sundiata Gaines ( New Jersey Nets ), Chris Richard ( Chicago Bulls ), and Mario West ( Atlanta Hawks ).

Wonderful reached number 22 and number 2 on Billboards Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively, and earned Williams a Gospel Music Association ( GMA ) Dove Award for Best Traditional Black Gospel Recorded Song of the Year.

Created in 2007, the Jeff Williams award is presented to the fourth year debater who, in the course of their APDA career, has earned the most finishes in the top ten of any OTY category.

On his 29th birthday while meeting with Jason Moran and his half brother Mark Moran on 13 October 1999 at a suburban park in Gladstone Park, Jason Moran shot Carl Williams in the stomach over a dispute about money earned in the amphetamine trade.

He completed a 53-week course in flight training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, and earned his Air Force wings.

Kregel graduated from the U. S. Air Force Academy in 1978, and earned his pilot wings in August 1979 at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona.

However, Williams had perhaps the worst season of his career in 2006 / 2007, losing his first match in a string of tournaments ( including the World Championship, for the first time ever ), but he retained his top 16 place, mainly through the ranking points he had earned the previous season.

Roger Williams had recently been thrown out, and Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomians were slugging it out with the powers-that-be.

Colored fellow named Tim Williams -- only hand she has working for her now.

Mrs. Williams had a list which she said contained about nine or ten discrepancies between her memory of Dr. Jenkins's conversation and how they were written up for the board's approval.

A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

Strippers, but scrumptious, and Toodle Williams and her all-lesbian band ''.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

His mother, Mary Catherine Williams, was born in the British West Indies ; her father was from Wales.

* 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Jamaican pediatrician Dr. Cicely Williams introduced the name into the medical community in her 1935 Lancet article.

NBC's Brian Williams, who attended a dinner with Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, " Mrs. Reagan's vision isn't what it always was so she was taking very halting steps as a lot of folks her age do ... t is so important for folks in her age bracket and in her bracket of life to remain upright and captain of their own ship.

" As for her mental ability, Williams remarked, " She's as sharp as ever and enjoys a robust life with her friends in California, but is always a danger of course.

Deal's musical background was folk music and country ; she had formed a country-folk band with her sister in her teenage years, and played covers of artists such as The Everly Brothers and Hank Williams.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

Williams lived with Louise Kaufman for twenty years until her death in 1993.

In his book, Cramer called her the love of Williams ' life.

After his death, her sons filed suit to recover her furniture from Williams ' condominium as well as a half-interest in the condominium they claimed he gave her.