Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.

Willis listened patiently, and once in a while William was exposed to them at a family gathering ; ;

Probably Mr. Willis was influenced toward deeper involvement by familial loyalty and a concern for his grandchildren.

Freddy's backing dropped away from him and Mr. Willis was forced to make up the deficit.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 1793.

He was replaced in the second by the Christian Science Monitors former Moscow correspondent, David Willis.

She was the oldest, Willis was second, and Arnold was the third.

In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news.

The Marlins did get good news though as Dontrelle Willis was named NL Rookie of the Year and Jack McKeon named Manager of the Year.

While Cabrera, Willis, and several others posted very good first-half numbers, Lowell was one of the least productive regular major-league starters, and Leiter went 3 – 7 with an ERA of 6. 64 before being traded to the New York Yankees on July 15 for a player to be named later.

During his tenure, Burnett was 49 – 50 with a 3. 73 ERA, 14 complete games and a team record 8 shutouts, tied with Dontrelle Willis.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

John Beck's dealings with Willis O ' Brien's project were done behind his back, and O ' Brien was never credited for his idea.

During pre-production, Ishirō Honda had toyed with the idea of using Willis O ' Brien's stop motion technique instead of the suitmation process used in the first two Godzilla films, but budgetary concerns prevented him from using the process, and the more cost efficient suitmation was used instead.

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

With able support from Dilley ( 56 ) and Chris Old ( 29 ), Botham hit out and by the close of play was 145 not out with Bob Willis hanging on at the other end on 1 not out.

On the final day's play there was time for just four more runs from Botham before Willis was out and Botham was left on 149 not out.

Willis ' far greater contribution was with the ball.

When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along.

His breakthrough building was arguably the Willis Building in Ipswich in 1975 and he has since designed landmark structures such as Wembley Stadium and 30 St Mary Axe.

Willis has appeared in four films with Samuel L. Jackson ( National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Unbreakable ) and both actors were slated to work together in Black Water Transit, before dropping out.

Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis, two of the earliest African-Americans to play professional football, also joined the team in 1946.

The studio suggested several alternatives, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner or John Travolta to play Lester, and Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter to play Carolyn.

He goes to his room and begins reading, and the episode then takes place in his mind as he imagines the members of the cast of Moonlighting in an adaptation of the play itself ( Bruce Willis plays Petruchio, Cybill Shepherd plays Katherina ).

After working as a private investigator ( a role he would play in the television series Moonlighting as well as in the 1991 film, The Last Boy Scout ), Willis returned to acting.

Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted a grand total of three players who have ever been chosen to play in an All-Star game ( Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, and Al Horford ; Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft ).

In fact, Horford is the only All-Star Hawk to have been drafted since Willis was selected in 1984, and is also the only first-rounder the Hawks selected in their nine-year playoff drought to play in an All-Star game.

Willis sees Booth entering late and delivers a miniature lecture about the importance of being on time and ready for the first day of practice, ending with a pointed question at Booth about his commitment to the success of the play.

Maurice wrote along with Allee Willis – who wrote " September ", " Boogie Wonderland ", " In the Stone " and " Sunday Morning " for the band – several new songs for the play.

Stamp won a scholarship to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then performed in various provincial repertory theatres, most notably in a national tour of Willis Hall ’ s play The Long the Short and the Tall alongside another young actor Michael Caine.

Bill Willis, a defensive lineman who Brown coached at Ohio State, and Marion Motley, a running back who grew up in Canton and played for Brown at Great Lakes, became two of the first black athletes to play professional football when they joined the team in 1946.

'" He converted Armchair Theatre into a vehicle for the generation of ' Angry Young Men ' who were emerging after John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) had become a great success, though older writers like Ted Willis, were not excluded.

Willis also published several poems, tales, and a play.

Willis played competitively at Jackson Community College for his freshman season and transferred to Michigan State University, where he would play three seasons as a fashion and textiles major.

Willis, who did not play in 2005-06, was reported to take the team's vacant 15th roster spot.

By playing five games during 2006-07, Willis became the oldest person to play more than one game in an NBA season ( Providence Steamrollers coach Nat Hickey activated himself for one game in 1948, at 45 years and 363 days old.

Richard Willis appears as a character in Act II of the play Cromwell by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1828.

Willis was also one of the first African-Americans to play professional football in the modern era, signing with the Browns a year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Wary of being compared to his older brother Claude, who had ben an All-State fullback at the same school a few years earlier, Willis eschewed the backfield to play tackle and end.

Willis was small for a lineman at 202 pounds, and despite signing up to play for Brown he was initially expected to focus on track and the 60-yard and 100-yard dashes.

Willis, however, still wanted to play football.

* Willis Richards – Prominent playwright credited with having the first serious play to be performed on Broadway.