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Nazi Germany in 1938 and moved to New York when he was 15. After serving in the U.S. Army for three years (where he was a Bronze Star recipient), he went on to Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1954. For the next 15 years, he was a member of Harvard’s faculty before entering the political world, serving as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford.

• Little did Ken Jennings know when he stepped onto the set of the game show “Jeopardy!” on June 2, 2004, that he would be appearing in 75 episodes and set a record for the longest winning streak on the popular program. During his tenure as champion, the Utah software engineer earned $2,520,700, plus $2,000 for second place on the day of his defeat and another $500,000 prize during the program’s Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Barbara Walters featured Jennings on her 2004 ABC News Special “The Ten Most Fascinating People of 2004.” In addition, Jennings chronicled his success in a 2006 book “Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs.” • At age 24, Tina Fey became a writer at NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” and by 29, she was the head writer. The next year she joined the cast, where she remained six years until 2006. She is the creator of the TV series “30 Rock” and is the winner of seven Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes. Her daughter was born in 2005, and she returned to work just one month later, saying, “NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.” • Clint Eastwood turns 81 this May and seems to have no intention or retiring. He spent his early years in a series of jobs, including lifeguard, grocery clerk, forest firefighter and golf caddy. He was almost 30 before the turn in his career came along with the role of Rowdy Yates in television’s “Rawhide,” a character he would play for the next six years.

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took him just two-and-a-half months to complete it. He entitled it “The Known World” and dedicated it to his late mother. • In “The Known World,” published in 2003, Jones penned the story of a former Virginia slave who purchased freedom and became the owner of 33 slaves and landowner of 50 acres. The novel was declared the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and became one of the choices for “The Today Show’s” Book Club series. Oprah Winfrey declared it “the best book I have read in 10 years.” • Edward Jones followed up his Pulitzer winner with a second collection of short stories, which also was nominated for various awards. Overcoming the odds, he has progressed from proofreader at Tax Notes to Pulitzer winner and an instructor of fiction writing at several universities, including George Washington University and Princeton.

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with another film, “Yellow,” to which he was already committed. *** Marvel Comics is not wasting any time planning sequels to its new super-hero films “Thor” (due out in May) and “Captain America” (out July • On May 19, 1836, during a raid, Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo Indians in Texas kidnap 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Had a letter asking, “What is one of our greatest 22). Both Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”) and Chris Parker and kill her family. Adopted into the Comanche tribe, actresses, Gena Rowlands, up to these days?” Evans (“Captain America”) will be getting the big she lived a happy life, marrying a warrior and having three Gena quietly moved on with her life after the 1989 superstar build-up. The advance reviews for “Thor” children, until Texas Rangers recaptured her in 1860. They forced her to return to live again among Anglo-Americans death of her husband of 35 years, John Cassavetes, are very positive for director Kenneth Branagh, after killing her husband. who directed both her Oscar-nominated films - the action sequences and Chris Hemsworth. As for Chris Evans, he has proven from his work • On May 16, 1849, the New York City Board of Health - “A Woman Under the in the “Fantastic Four” finally is able to establish a hospital to deal with a cholera Influence” and “Gloria” films that he can more epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000 people. -- and was a pioneer in than handle the acting The disease spread when boat passengers escaped from a independent film making. required of him. It seems mandatory quarantine. Always watching and that as life gets more • On May 18, 1861, an obscure California newspaper relates waiting for a good script, complicated, we need how first lady Mary Todd Lincoln took it upon herself she’s passed on most bigger than life super to appoint Mr. W.S. Wood as superintendent of Public everything she’s read ... heroes for whom we can Buildings. The article suggested that Mrs. Lincoln had been until now. smitten with Mr. Wood’s handsome features, luxuriant cheer. whiskers and graceful carriage.

When I lunched with her Hoover Vacuum clean- • On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secures the necessary in Palm Springs, Gena ers has made a bold patents for canvas pants with copper rivets to reinforce the told me, “I’m doing a statement against ABC stress points. Unable to sell a large supply of canvas in the film in Australia, which for canceling “All My California mining camps, Strauss had hit on the idea of is a long way to go to using the durable material to make work pants for miners. make a movie, but ‘Last Dance’ is so good, I Children” and “One Life to Live.” In a move rarely couldn’t turn it down! It’s about Ulah Lippman, seen by a sponsor, it has pulled all its advertising • On May 17, 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a Holocaust survivor taken hostage by an injured from ABC. Hoover’s VP of Marketing, Brian a group of American bombers based in Britain, becomes the first B-17 crew to complete 25 missions over Europe. A terrorist after a bombing devastates her Melbourne Kirkendall, admitted that his wife and mother are fictional film about the B-17, called “Memphis Belle,” was neighborhood. It’s told from both their points of “both passionate viewers of ‘All My Children’ and released in 1990. view and explains how they got where they are!” ‘One Life to Live,’ as are many of my colleagues • On May 21, 1955, unknown singer Chuck Berry paid his (If the title, “Last Dance” sounds familiar, it may here at Hoover.” first visit to a recording studio and cut “Maybellene.” The Hoover has set up an e-mail address, be because of the Oscar-winning song “Last song became a No. 1 R&B hit and a No. 5 pop hit. It helped SavetheSoaps@Hoover.com, for soap fans to Dance” from the 1996 Donna Summer movie have their say, which it plans to pass on to ABC. In that DJ Alan Freed played the record for two hours straight “Thank God It’s Friday.”) during his WINS radio show. other words, Hoover told ABC, “We’re supposed • On May 22, 1969, legendary actor Paul Newman makes his Gena has enjoyed her break from movie making to suck!” onscreen racing debut in the action-drama film “Winning.” by dividing her time between Los Angeles and Newman played Frank Capua, a struggling race car driver Send letters to Tony Rizzo’s Hollywood, 8306 Palm Springs with her husband, Robert Forrest. who must turn around his fortunes by winning the biggest Her son, Nick Cassavetes, had to bow out of Wilshire Blvd., No. 362, Beverly Hills, CA race of them all -- the Indianapolis 500. directing John Travolta’s new film, “Gotti: 90211. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. Three Generations” due to a scheduling conflict

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Zev Chafets files a gem of a story with “Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame” (Bloomsbury, $15). Part memoir, part legend, part scholarly work and, in some cases, arguably libelous, Chafets goes where no other baseball writer would dare to go in peeking behind the curtain of have a lot of lint and stuff on them. Most of it comes off baseball’s kingmakers. in the dryer, but it’s annoying. How can I fix it? -- A Reader, via email Lord knows I’ve used this blessed space on more than

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Washing Machines Agitate Owners Q: Our washing machine is pretty old, and one day when my son was doing laundry the dial made a cracking sound and came off in his hand. Right now we make do by arduously turning the small plastic collar that’s left until the wash cycle comes on. However, only one cycle, “permanent press,” works properly (goes all the way from start to finish). Is there any way to fix this, or should I start saving for a new washer? -- Hannah G., Brattleboro, Vt.

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one occasion to assail the Baseball Writers Association of America, the baseball commissioner’s office and the moneyball-changers inside the temple of Cooperstown. For far too long and far too often, this triumvirate has treated baseball with the same sort of hypocrisy the major world religions are now accused of on a near daily basis. Yes, baseball is religion in America, as well it should be. Like all of those “pastime” clichŽs that end up becoming so remarkably accurate, and so much of what lends so many to either connect with it at an early age as if it were some celestially chosen calling or fall in love with it in a born again-like fervor at a later point in time, it’s what makes baseball worth revering.

HOME TIP: Keep your washing it is a baseball writer’s job to spread the word of machine clean by wiping down the tub Ithebelieve mystical deeds of the diamond with their stories, and periodically with a damp cloth. Twice a every columnist should take the preacher’s stand with a year, run the washer through a full cycle little bit of fire and brimstone. But to play the role of St. Peter standing at the pearly gates, to make like they’re some with only a cup of vinegar or bleach arbiter of morality? No ... not so much. We don’t even hold priests and preachers to such lofty standards anymore. added.

Send questions or comments to ask@thisisahammer.com, But clergy also canned Latin at Catholic Mass years ago A: Unfortunately, I’m not sure exactly what the solution or write This Is a Hammer, c/o King Features Weekly and recently allowed Matisyahu to rap a few verses of late. Maybe that’s why Chafets, himself an Israeli ex-pat who Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. would be. If I had the make and model of the washing readily admits he won’t be let into the good graces of the machine, I could look up common problems and suggested (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. Hall or those currently lording over the game anytime soon, fixes for that brand. I do know that some replacement parts, feels free to burn a bush or two. like the dial, can be ordered, but if the machine is more than several years old, the part may no longer be available. The Dubious politics, former players, the commissioner’s office single-cycle only problem might be a problem with the wash and the Hall’s ownership philosophies form an almost timer, but again, it’s tough to know how to fix it. almost DaVinci Code-like shroud over the story. And while Your best option at the moment is to contact an appliance most of the scandalous and scurrilous stories are nothing repair center with the make and model and a description of new to beat reporters or beaten down fans (Babe Ruth may the problem. A repairman might come out to fully diagnose have been of mixed-race, for instance), he spells out the the issue. If so, ask for any repair estimate in writing before math involved: the Hall translates into real money. Just allowing any work to be done. ask Padre Dave Winfield or Expo Gary Carter about the commissioner’s decision to deny a inducted player the right *** to choose what cap they were enshrined in. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson died penniless, but not before the Q: I picked up an older washer-dryer set for a good book relays the poignant scene of him, long since disgraced, price via an online ad. Everything works fine, except working from behind the clerk’s counter at a liquor store that when the clothes are done washing, they seem to and being recognized by Hall of Famer Ty Cobb. “I didn’t think you guys wanted to talk to me,” he said. Joe ... we’re still talking about you now. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter and publisher of The Kansas City Luminary. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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PerFit is Not a Gym... It Is Your Personal Fitness Center! MAYS AND BERRA Two of Major League Baseball’s greats claim May as their birth month. Willie Mays turns 80 this month, and Yogi Berra will celebrate his 86th birthday. Let’s take a short look at each of their lives and careers. • The professional baseball career of Willie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid,” began while he was still in high school. He started playing on Tennessee’s minor league Chattanooga ChooChoos during his summer break in 1947. After a stint in the Negro American League, he joined the New York Giants’ Class B team in 1950. He missed 266 games when he was drafted during the Korean War but was back in the game for the 1954 season. The Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958. • Many consider Mays to be the greatest all-around player of all time. He played in 24 All-Star games and had a lifetime batting average of .302. He ranks fourth on the list of career home runs with 660 and had 3,283 hits. During two seasons, he blasted 50 or more home runs, and he was named “Player of the Decade” for the 1960s. • One of Mays’ best friends on the Giants was right fielder Bobby Bonds. When Bobby’s son Barry was born in 1964, Mays was asked to be his godfather, and he has remained close to the younger slugger his entire life. (Bobby himself was no slouch in the home run department, having hit 332 during his career.)

• After 17 years with the Giants, Mays was traded to the New York Mets at age 41. The Giants were in financial trouble, and Mays couldn’t be guaranteed an income after he retired, whereas the Mets had offered him a coaching position upon retirement. • At his induction into the Hall of Fame in 1979, reporters asked Mays who was the best ball player he had seen over the course of his career. His reply? “I don’t mean to be bashful, but I was.” And in the words of baseball great Ted Williams, “They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays.”

• Lawrence Peter Berra’s famous nickname Yogi has nothing to do with a bear. His friend told him he looked like a Hindu holy man, or “yogi,” because he always sat with his arms and legs crossed as he waited for his turn at bat. Berra’s parents came to America from Italy, arriving at Ellis Island in 1909 and later settling in St. Louis. • Berra lost a spot on the St. Louis Cardinals to his best friend Joe Garagiola in 1942. Instead, he played Class B ball until he entered the Navy during World War II, where - Continued on page 10

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May and Berra Continued he served as a Gunner’s Mate during the D-Day invasion. • Berra has been called the greatest catcher in baseball history. His career with the New York Yankees began in 1946. He played in the All-Star game 15 times, was the league’s MVP three times and appeared in 14 World Series. His lifetime batting average was .285, and he slugged 358 home runs. • Berra is noted for many memorable quotes, perhaps the most famous being, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” Other wise advice was, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” His reason as to why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series to the Pirates was, “We made too many wrong mistakes.”

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Leave open the drapes for more natural light when the house is being shown. Finally, don’t make any expensive changes unless your agent suggests it might be necessary.

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• “My dogs stay outside most of the day now, while the weather is so nice. We bring them indoors when it gets too hot, but for a treat, we will freeze a plastic cup of ice and then chuck the “ice block” on the porch. They lick at it and play with it. It’s like a little doggie water park when they are done.” -- M.E. in Ohio • Finding a summer camp for your kids can be a chore. Check with your child’s school and school friends for recommendations. Also, see if your city’s recreation department is holding any camps. Some county extension offices (agriculture department) offer camps. Many of these are reasonably priced. Don’t delay.

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