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Wills is also quoted as saying, " You can change the name of an old song, rearrange it and make it a swing.
Wills also appeared in The Lone Prairie ( 1942 ), Riders of the Northwest Mounted ( 1943 ), Saddles and Sagebrush ( 1943 ), The Vigilantes Ride ( 1943 ), The Last Horseman ( 1944 ), Rhythm Round-Up ( 1945 ), Blazing the Western Trail ( 1945 ), and Lawless Empire ( 1945 ).
Positive accounts of Aboriginal customs and encounters are also recorded in the journals of early European explorers, who often relied on Aboriginal guides and assistance: Charles Sturt employed Aboriginal envoys to explore the Murray-Darling ; the lone survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition was nursed by local Aborigines, and the famous Aboriginal explorer Jackey Jackey loyally accompanied his ill-fated friend Edmund Kennedy to Cape York.
Former MLB players and coaches have also coached or managed in the Northern League including Terry Bevington, " Dirty " Al Gallagher, Jackie Hernández, Danny Jackson, Maury Wills, Tim Johnson, Ron Kittle, Hal Lanier, Darryl Motley, Matt Nokes, and Wayne Terwilliger.
Fellow former colored heavyweight champ Harry Wills also participated in the exhibition.
Wills Point is also the final resting place for Trailblazer, the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States.
Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).
The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup after its official sponsors, was the sixth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council ( ICC ).
In 2005, Garry Wills wrote " What Jesus Meant ," in which he examined " What Would Jesus Really Do " ( also a book review in Esquire Magazine ).
Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.
He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented Bristol North in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist.
Wills also outstole all of the other teams that year, the highest total being the Washington Senators ' 99.
Wills ' 97th stolen base had occurred after his team had played its 154th game ; as a result, Commissioner Ford Frick ruled that Wills ' 104-steal season and Cobb's 96-steal season of 1915 were separate records, just as he had the year before ( the American League had also increased its number of games played per team to 162 ) after Roger Maris had broken Babe Ruth's single season home run record.
Working with Trenwith Wills, Wellesley also remodeled Castle Hill, Filleigh, in Devon ; Hinton Ampner in Hampshire ; and Biddick Hall in County Durham.
At first he paid the band members $ 7. 50 a week, but also required that they work a " regular " job at the mill: Wills drove a truck, Arnspiger worked on the dock loading flour, and Brown was a salesman.
" Wills also assumed responsibility for managing the band, albeit reluctantly as he was unable to find anyone else to take on the role.
The Victoria Rooms and the Wills Memorial Building, also owned by the University, the Royal West of England Academy ; and BBC Bristol are considered to be in Clifton, although they are not within the boundaries of the council ward.
Legal translation may also involve, Certificates of Accuracy, Witness Statements1, Depositions, Trusts, Wills, Articles of Incorporation, Litigation Documents, Immigration Documents, Property / Exhibit Labels and in some cases attendance in court by the translator ( s ).
The Jacobites had also suffered losses in the fighting as well as losing defectors overnight, and though the Highlanders ' full intention was to fight on and take the attack to the enemy, Forster agreed to his Colonel Oxburgh's offer to open negotiations with Wills for capitulation on favourable terms.
On 7 August 1858, Wills was one of the umpires at a match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School, also in the Richmond Paddock.
Wills was also ahead of his time.
A room in the Great Southern Stand, known as the Tom Wills Room, reserved for corporate functions is also named after him.
For many years, Wills role in the birth of Australian Football was played down by MCC officials who instead credited most of this to his cousin ( and also brother in-law ), H. C. A. Harrison, and some believe this to be due Harrison's apparently more wholesome character.

Wills and broke
However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.
Of the other former and future coloured heavyweight champs that Battling Jim battled, he won only one fight, against Harry Wills, because he broke his wrist blocking a punch in a non-title match and Johnson won by a TKO.
Garry Wills broke with NR and became a liberal commentator.
" When Bob Wills played the Los Angeles Country Barn Dance at the Venice Pier for three nights shortly before he broke up his band to join the U. S. Army during World War II, the attendance was above 15, 000.
In that year he set a team record with 667 at bats, exceeding Ivy Olson's total of 652 ; Maury Wills broke his mark with 695 in.
Of the other former and future Colored Heavyweight Champions that Battling Jim battled, he won only one fight, against Harry Wills, because he broke his wrist blocking a punch in a non-title match and Johnson won by a technical knockout.
The magazine attracted writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Terry McMillan, Garry Wills, Alex Heard, Sousa Jamba and Nancy Franklin, but despite a circulation of 120, 000, and despite being financially successful, ceased publication when the Gulf War broke out in 1991 and the economy entered a recession.

Wills and attendance
Those in attendance included Tom Wills, William Hammersley, J. B. Thompson and Thomas H. Smith.
Author Tony Wills, who analyzed attendance and " field worker " statistics, suggests it was the " more dedicated " Bible Students who quit through the 1920s, to be replaced by newcomers in larger numbers, although Rutherford dismissed the loss of the original Bible Students as the Lord " shaking out " the unfaithful.
Through his agent, David Wills, Curtin procured the attendance of President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery.

Wills and record
Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.
Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".
On September 10, 1974, Brock stole two bases, tying Maury Wills ' mark of 104 with a first inning steal of second base and then capturing sole possession of the single season record with another swipe of second in the seventh inning.
They have met in a total of eight Grand Slam finals, ahead of the number of finals played by Steffi Graf and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and by Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs but behind the record of fourteen finals set by Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
This 67-card set included a number of stars, including 1962 National League MVP Maury Wills ( then holder of the modern record for stolen bases in a season ), who had elected to sign with Fleer instead of Topps.
Wills stole 104 bases in to set a new Major League record, breaking the old modern era mark of 96, set by Ty Cobb in 1915.
Wills played a full 162 game schedule, plus all three games of the best of three regular season playoff series with the San Francisco Giants, giving him a total of 165 games played, a record that still stands for games played in a single season.
While Wills had broken Cobb's single season stolen base record in 1962, the National League had increased its number of games played per team that year from 154 to 162.
On April 7, 1986, he set a major league record by hitting the first pitch of the season for a home run, eclipsing the mark held by the Chicago Cubs ' Bump Wills, who hit the second pitch for a home run on April 4, 1982.
Benson brought together some of the best talent in country music today to record the tribute to Wills and Texas swing music, including Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, the Dixie Chicks, and Willie Nelson.
His biggest success came later with a dance song, " Two-Step Side-Step ", which was featured by Lawrence Welk on his radio program in 1952 and covered on record by RCA Victor Western Swing artist Johnnie Lee Wills, as well as country music singer Bonnie Lou.
Still active in 1992, now aged 39 and with a 33 – 9 – 1 record, Smith regained some credibility with a 10 round decision over Mark Wills.
Having been discovered by Deltasonic founder Alan Wills, they were the first act to sign to the record label Deltasonic, home of Liverpudlian bands The Coral and The Zutons.
In that same season, Davis and Wills set an National League record for stolen bases by two teammates in season with 136 ( Wills with 104 and Davis with 32 ).

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