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Bretrick

Bretrick

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My idea is to write about someone you admire, be it family, musician, scientist, astronaut, photographer, chef, volunteer - et al.

I choose to write about Glen Campbell.
(Taken from various sources)
Glen was born in Arkansas in 1936.
The last of 12 children, his early life was on a farm where they barely got by growing cotton, corn, watermelons and potatoes.
Glen - "We had no electricity, and money was scarce. A dollar in those days looked as big as a saddle blanket."
To supplement income the family picked cotton for more successful farmers. "I picked cotton for $1.25 a hundred pounds," said Campbell. "If you worked your tail off, you could pick 80 or 90 pounds a day."
Campbell started playing guitar at age four after his uncle Boo gave him a Sears-bought five-dollar guitar, with his uncle teaching him the basics of how to play. By the time he was six he was performing on local radio stations.
At age fourteen he'd left home to pursue music full-time. Joining a three piece band led by his uncle Dick Bills in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he later toured the Southwest with his own band - The Western Wranglers
At twenty-four, Glen moved to L.A. and despite the fact that he couldn't read music, became one the "hottest" studio musicians in the business.
As with many musicians in the spotlight, Glen also had a period of heavy drug and alcohol use.
He got sober in the mid-1980s and became a born-again Christian.

In 1967 Campbell released "Gentle On My Mind", a song that launched his career.
In 1969 Glen Campbell sold more records than the Beatles. He has taken home more awards than anybody else.
He made history by winning a Grammy in both Country and Pop in 1967.
"Gentle On My Mind" took top Country honors and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" won in Pop. He's been named Male Vocalist Of The Year by both the CMA and the ACM and the CMA's Entertainer Of The Year.
Glen Campbell sold over 45 million records. He recorded over 60 albums, earning twelve Gold albums, seven Platinum albums, fourteen Gold singles in the process. He's been awarded five Grammys and a Dove Award. (An accolade by the Gospel Music Association of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the Christian music industry. )
Glen Campbell wrote his autobiography - Rhinestone Cowboy - which was published in 1995.
He recounts his former life as a philanderer, profligate, and drug and alcohol user - including his abusive relationship with Tanya Tucker - and his eventual conversion to religion and a stable marriage.
In his own words - "If my words here prevent one person from making the mistakes I made, going the way I went, then the trip back in time will have been worth it."

I could go on forever, relating all things Glen Campbell, but a line has to be drawn sometime.

In June 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six months earlier. After his diagnosis was revealed, he withdrew from a scheduled Australian concert tour.
He became a patient at an Alzheimer's long term care and treatment facility in 2014. That same year, Campbell was the subject of the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, that examined Campbell's Alzheimer's diagnosis and how it affected his musical performances during his final tour across the United States with his family. The documentary received critical acclaim, earning a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Campbell died in Nashville, Tennessee on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81. He was buried in the Campbell family cemetery in Billstown, Arkansas.

In June 2020, Campbell's wife of 34 years, Kim Campbell, published Gentle on my Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell, a memoir of their life together
Rhinestone Cowboy
 

Glenn Campbell and Alice Cooper became very good friends and were often spotted playing golf together in the city that I live in. Alice Cooper has a charity event here every Christmas (Christmas Pudding event) and Glenn Campbell often participating in that event. Some thought it was an odd pairing but they both had a lot in common. They both did a lot for charities in the area.
 
I would like to spread some information about The Chimpanzee Lady.
Almost everyone on this site will know who I am talking about.
Jane Goodall changed the way we viewed chimpanzees through her life long study of the resident chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
(taken from various sources)
Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England.
Her father, Mortimer Morris-Goodall was an engineer, later a racing car driver, and her mother, Margaret Joseph, was an author.
Jane’s father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee toy what she named Jubilee. Although Jane mother’s friends were shocked by the toy and thought she would be scared of it, Jane loved that stuffed toy and had it with her wherever she went.
Jane stated that her passion with animals started with this present. She was very interested in animals from a very young age. Once Jane’s whole family was looking for her and it turned out that she was watching laying hens for hours.

At a young age she became interested in animals. Making notes on the local bird life and animals.
After Jane read the book about Doctor Doolittle, a doctor who can communicate with animals, she was dreaming about living with and writing about animals in Africa.
Jane was determined to go to Africa and left school at age 18 to start earning money to pay for her passage to Africa.
She became a secretary and a film production assistant.
Having amassed enough savings, Jane arrived by boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with her mother - local officials would not allow Jane to stay at Gombe without an escort.
She soon became an assistant to Louis Leakey, a famous scientist.
The early weeks at Gombe were challenging. Jane contracted malaria − causing a delay to the start of her work.
Jane’s first encounter was with an older male whom she named David Greybeard, this chimpanzee began to allow Jane to watch him. As a high ranking male of the chimpanzee community, his acceptance meant other group members also allowed Jane to observe.
It was David Greybeard whom Jane first witnessed using tools. She spotted the chimpanzee sticking blades of stiff grass into termite holes to extract termites.
Excited, she telegraphed Dr. Leakey about her groundbreaking observation. He wrote back, “Now we must redefine ‘tool,’ redefine ‘man,’ or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

During the years she studied at Gombe Stream National Park, she made three observations that challenged conventional scientific ideas:

1 --chimps are omnivores, not herbivores and even hunt for meat;
2 - chimps use tools; and
3 - chimps make their tools.
Jane found that “it isn’t only human beings who have personality, who are capable of rational thought and emotions like joy and sorrow.”
She also observed behaviours such as hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and even tickling, what we consider “human” actions.
Goodall insists that these gestures are evidence of “the close, supportive, affectionate bonds that develop between family members and other individuals within a community, which can persist throughout a life span of more than 50 years.”
Over time, Jane’s relationship grew closer and closer to the chimpanzees. For a period of nearly two years she became member of a chimpanzee troop, living with the chimps as part of their day to day lives. She was eventually kicked out when Frodo, a male chimp who didn’t like Jane, became the leader of the troop.

In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which supports the Gombe Stream National Park research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats.
In 1992, Goodall founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of Congo to care for chimpanzees orphaned due to bush-meat trade. The rehabilitation houses over a hundred chimps over its three islands.
In 1994, Goodall founded the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education - TACARE or “Take Care” pilot project to protect chimpanzees’ habitat from deforestation by reforesting hills around Gombe while simultaneously educating neighbouring communities on sustainability and agriculture training.
Mid 90’s saw the opening of the Jane Goodall Institute’s Center for Primate Studies at the University of Minnesota to house and organise all of the original Jane Goodall research notes.
The complete archives of Jane Goodall’s research archives reside there and have been digitised, analysed, and placed in an online database.
Since 2004, Jane devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees and the environment, travelling nearly 300 days a year.
She is also on the advisory council for the world’s largest chimpanzee sanctuary outside of Africa, Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida.

In 2020, to further connect with audiences worldwide, Jane launched the “Jane Goodall Hopecast,” a podcast series filled with meaningful connections.

2021 “The Book of Hope” is published.
Jane shares her reasons for hope which include human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power of young people, and the indomitable human spirit.

2024 - The world celebrates Jane’s 90th birthday with events and activities throughout the year. Jane continues to travel approximately 300 days each year, spreading her inspirational message of hope through action.

Jane Goodall, a truly remarkable, inspiring lady who has long been an advocate for the dignity and well-being of all living things, and the belief that speaking out on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves is our responsibility as fellow inhabitants of this shared earth

Jane Goodall: ‘Reasons for Hope’ about the planet’s future
 
I was trying to climb into the freight car with both arms full of heavy bundles of papers. I ran after it and caught the rear step, hardly able to lift myself. A trainman reached over and grabbed me by the ears and lifted me…I felt something snap inside my head and the deafness started from that time and has progressed ever since….Earache came first, then a little deafness, and this deafness increased until at the theatre I could hear only a few words now and then. --Thomas Edison

Years later Edison told friends that that never happened. But he was deaf in one ear and hard-of-hearing in the other.

I wonder why he would fabricate such a story.
 
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Next up is Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was labelled the most important intellectual alive.
In 2005 he was voted the world’s leading public intellectual from a list of 100 prominent thinkers.
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His parents were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. His mother emigrated from Belarus, and his father from Ukraine.
An intensely private person, he is uninterested in appearances and the fame his work has brought him.
Chomsky is not motivated by a desire for fame, but impelled to tell what he perceives as the truth and a desire to aid others in doing so.
“Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.” —Edward Said (Palestinian-American philosopher and academic)

For fifty years, Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging social critics of our time.
Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.

Chomsky’s many bestselling works—including Manufacturing Consent,(of which I have read) Hegemony or Survival, Understanding Power, and Failed States - have served as essential touchstones for dissidents, activists, scholars, and concerned citizens on subjects ranging from the media to human rights to intellectual freedom.
His scathing critiques of the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East have been the intellectual inspiration for antiwar movements over nearly five decades.
As the political landscape has changed over the course of Chomsky’s life, he has remained a steadfast voice on the left, never wavering in his convictions and always questioning entrenched power.

Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive.
He is both revered and reviled.
American conservative commentator David Horowitz called him “the most devious, the most dishonest and … the most treacherous intellect in America”, whose work is infused with “anti-American dementia” and evidences his “pathological hatred of his own country”

I know that people have strong views regarding Noam Chomsky.
I admire the man for exposing the truths which many want to remain hidden.
 
I have more than one - Thanks to a Canadian team of researchers – Frederick Banting, Charles Herbert Best, John J.R. Macleod, and James Bertram Collip – a treatment was discovered in 1921, when they succeeded in isolating and purifying insulin. Following this discovery, they successfully treated diabetic patients at the Toronto General Hospital, making headlines around the world.

Thank God, as my younger brother was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. However, now he is a GP who specializes in Diabetes and in addition Chronic Pain Research.
 
One very interesting lady was Coco Chanel
Trailblazer. Icon. A force to be reckoned with.
Renowned French designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel lived a life of light and dark, glamour and controversy, which is what she intended.
Amidst the glitz of Paris, the revolutionary businesswoman redefined the world of fashion and created stylish clothing for a new generation of modern women who were ambitious, intelligent, and rebellious.
Her iconic little black dress and bouclé jackets and skirts are now classic style staples seen all over the world.
Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel on the 19th August 1883 she was a French fashion designer and businesswoman The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post World War I era with popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.
Her parents were Eugénie Jeanne Devolle Chanel, a laundrywoman, and Albert Chanel, who worked as a street vendor.
The family lived in poverty while moving throughout the French countryside. After her mother died in 1895, 11-year-old Gabrielle Chanel was sent to a convent-run orphanage in Aubazine. It was there that she learned to sew.
At age 18, Gabrielle moved to Moulins, where she attended school while living in a convent. In 1902 she struck out on her own and became a seamstress. During this time Chanel also worked as a café singer.
While the origin of her nickname “Coco” is uncertain, some believe it is a reference to several songs she performed: “Ko Ko Ri Ko” (“Cock-a-doodle-doo”) and “Qui qu’a vu Coco?” (“Has anyone seen Coco?”).

Coco had an affair with Arthur Capel, (a wealthy businessman, politician, tycoon, polo-player, and shipping merchant) until his death in 1919.
With his financial assistance, she opened Chanel Modes, a tiny millinery shop in Paris, in 1910. Two years later she established a boutique in Deauville, France.
Within five years her original designs to create a “poor girl” look had attracted the attention of influential wealthy women.
Coco’s maxim was “luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury,” Chanel’s designs stressed simplicity and comfort, and they revolutionized the fashion industry.

In 1926 Chanel continued to transform fashion by introducing the so-called “little black dress”. While Chanel was not the first fashion designer to use black, the color was commonly reserved for mourning attire or more formal wear.
Chanel’s black dress, however, was incredibly versatile, easily transitioning from day to evening with the right accessories—such as the costume jewellery she often wore. The Little Black Dress was hailed for both its simplicity and mass appeal.

While Chanel found immense success as a designer, the financial basis of her empire was Chanel No. 5.

She developed the phenomenally successful perfume in 1921 with the help of Ernest Beaux, one of the most talented perfume creators in France. It has been said that the perfume got its name from the series of scents that Beaux created for Chanel to sample—she chose the fifth, a combination of jasmine and several other floral scents that was more complex and mysterious than the single-scented perfumes then on the market.
Chanel was the first major fashion designer to introduce a perfume and that she replaced the typical perfume packaging with a simple and sleek bottle also added to the scent’s success.
Chanel closed her couture house in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II.
At the time she was living at the Ritz Paris hotel, which became Nazi headquarters after France fell to Germany in 1940.
There she began a romantic relationship with Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, a German diplomat and Gestapo spy.
While researchers and biographers have demonstrated that Chanel was a collaborator, there is disagreement over the extent of her involvement with Nazis.
Some allege that she only socialized with Germans, turning a blind eye to their activities. Others, however, assert that she was a Nazi agent.
Of particular note is a trip she took to Madrid with a German intelligence agent in 1941. It is believed that she had entered into a deal with the Nazis to secure the release of her nephew, who was a prisoner of war in a German detention camp.
Although it is unknown what she did in Madrid, soon after Chanel returned to France, her nephew was freed.
Soon after the Nazi occupation ended in 1944, Chanel was arrested by French authorities. However, no charges were brought, and Chanel later claimed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a longtime friend, had intervened.
She subsequently moved to Switzerland.
In the early 1950s Chanel began to contemplate a return to fashion.
At the time French fashion had undergone a seismic change led by Christian Dior. He had created the widely copied New Look, a style defined by ultrafeminine, elaborate, and highly sculptured clothing.
Chanel, who favored simpler and more comfortable designs, was derisive of the look, and at one point she claimed, “Dior doesn’t dress women, he upholsters them.”
In 1954 Chanel staged her first fashion show in some 15 years. Although the French press had negative reviews, the collection proved popular in the United States.
That year Chanel also introduced her highly copied suit design: a collarless, braid-trimmed tweed jacket with a graceful skirt.
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In 1954 Chanel staged her first fashion show
By the end of the 1950s, she had also debuted several other iconic items, notably a quilted purse with gold chains and two-toned shoes. These creations helped Chanel reclaim her position as one of fashion’s most influential designers.

After her death in 1971, Chanel’s couture house was led by a series of designers, with Karl Lagerfeld’s tenure (1983–2019) being the longest and most influential.
Under their direction, the Chanel brand has remained one of the most influential and iconic. Coco Chanel’s shrewd understanding of women’s fashion needs, her enterprising ambition, and the romantic aspects of her life—her rise from rags to riches and her sensational love affairs - continue to inspire numerous biographical books, films, and plays.
Notable examples include the 1969 Broadway musical Coco, which starred Katharine Hepburn as the legendary designer, and Coco Before Chanel, 2009 a biopic with Audrey Tautou in the title role.
The disturbing Story of Coco Chanel
 
I stumbled onto this remarkable Project 365 in 2022.
Campbell Remess started his teddy bear craft-making hobby when he was only 9 years old. Now a teen, his one-of-a-kind collection has grown into the thousands, but you won’t find his bears on a shelf at home.
His mission of kindness has the sole purpose of donating his creations to put a smile on the faces of sick children and uplift their spirits.
The young boy’s work began one day when he was Christmas shopping with his mother. He asked if they could purchase a few presents for sick children in hospitals. His mother had to decline as the family, which included nine children, could simply not afford the extra cost. Campbell told his mother not to worry — he would make the toys himself.

“I hadn’t sewn anything before. The first time, it took a lot of practice,” Campbell recalled.

Campbell hijacked his mother’s sewing machine and got straight to work. He learned to create the stuffed animals by trial and error, using free patterns and the internet for instructions. It took him five hours to make his first bear, which he described as “a ratty, wiggly bear.” With much practice and persistence, he was able to cut his time down to one hour per bear, and he began turning out unique, vibrant-colored bears that kids love to cuddle.
Throughout his youth, while most other children were playing video games or skateboarding, Campbell was hunched over a sewing machine, crafting stuffed animals. What drives his hard work is witnessing firsthand how a child transforms when they are gifted a teddy bear. Each child’s eyes light up with joy, and for a moment, they forget their illness.

“They smile, and some hug me. It makes their whole day better,” said Campbell, describing how children typically react when he hands them their customized bear. He believes each bear instills a sense of hope in the receiver.
Campbell’s mother, Sonia, said her son would be sewing all the time if allowed. The young boy personally delivers his bright, colorful, soft and very huggable teddy bears to a local hospital every week.
Campbell at 12 years of age
Campbell made an extra special teddy for his father, Nathan, who was diagnosed with cancer. When his father’s cancer returned, Campbell gave Nathan a bear named Winner to motivate and awaken the fighter in him.

“Cancer gets worse with stress, so I made him the bear so he could get rid of the cancer,” said Campbell.

His father, in turn, said his son’s kind mission has taught him to get up and move forward with a positive mindset every day, no matter the circumstances.

“There’s a little bit of magic in them (the bears), but there is a lot of magic in Campbell,” said his proud father, overcome with emotion.

After his story aired on Australian television, the young boy started his own organization, Project 365 by Campbell. People around the world have donated money to assist him on his teddy bear mission. With these gifts, he now donates toys to children in crisis all over the world.

His bears have become so popular that some are auctioned off, with the proceeds going toward sending children with cancer and their families on “Kindness Cruises” that offer the families a much-needed escape from their medical battles.

During the pandemic, Campbell — now 16 years old and beginning college — launched his own YouTube channel to instruct others on how to sew so that they too could be creative during downtime. And he is bringing his kindness to new groups in need with the “Inside Out Bears” project to teach incarcerated individuals to sew bears, too.

Campbell said he believes that kindness can change the world. PassItOn and The Foundation For A Better Life couldn’t agree more. We believe Campbell Remess is a true hero for uplifting sick children and easing the fear and anxiety of people in need. His action is a great example of the value of kindness. As he demonstrates, one small idea can generate a huge impact. Please help us honor this young hero by sharing his story of how renewed hope can be spread through kindness in action.

Campbell Remess: The Heroes of Project 365

About | Project 365 By Campbell Remess
 
MarkinPhx said:
Glenn Campbell and Alice Cooper became very good friends and were often spotted playing golf together in the city that I live in. Alice Cooper has a charity event here every Christmas (Christmas Pudding event) and Glenn Campbell often participating in that event. Some thought it was an odd pairing but they both had a lot in common. They both did a lot for charities in the area.
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I liked him, But I am being petty (I know) that it is Glen..with ONE N,

Stephen Hawking...a brilliant man who had to deal with ALS and still could comunicate and do so much. I have a friend who using a "voice assistant" like Hawkings...that she uses with eye controls


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A number of years ago around July 4th, former Titans quarterback Steve McNair was shot and killed. Talking heads rattle on and on about what a great person he was. As the truth came out he left his family sleeping in his fashionable home to meet up with the girl he was having a not so secret affair with. Because of her jealousy or whatever else was troubling her she shot him and then herself in a murder suicide setting. The talking heads overlooks all his disgusting behavior to praise his football career, and nothing about his character. You could look a similar flaws in Campbell.
 
American physicist Professor Julius Sumner Miller was the brilliant and wonderfully mad professor who introduced young Australian television viewers to science with his famous signature question, “Why is it so?”

Born in Billerica, Massachusetts, of immigrant small-farming parents, father Latvia, mother Lithuania, he studied at Boston University and went on to give more than 30,000 lectures around the world.
He was educated at local schools and at Boston University and the University of Idaho.

Employed by Dillard University, New Orleans and El Camino College, California, Miller worked in their physics departments. He was a visiting lecturer at the US Air Force Academy. In addition to recording science shows in the USA, he appeared on popular television programs, including ‘The Groucho Marx Show’, Walt Disney’s ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ and Johnny Carson’s ‘The Tonight Show’.

From 1962 to 1986 Miller made twenty-seven visits to Australia, primarily to give demonstrations and lectures at the annual science school for high-school students in the physics department at the University of Sydney.
The lectures were televised for years. He also presented a television program entitled ‘Why Is It So?’ for the ABC.
Delighting in showing ‘how Nature worked its wondrous ways’, he rarely offered any detailed explanations. He preferred to encourage his audience to seek the answers.
Bubbling with infectious enthusiasm not normally associated with the serious scientist, he brought each presentation to life with details of the history of the subject and the origins and meanings of the words used to describe it.
Each session had a strong element of drama and was punctuated loudly with phrases such as ‘Watch it now! Watch it!’ or ‘He who is not stirred by the beauty of it is already dead!’.
He set traps to keep people on their toes; he would ask members of the audience to verify that a glass was empty and then berate them for not noticing that it was full of air.
He was deep, forthright, aggressive, brusque, and more than a little scary, but a generation of children grew up watching the professor on Australian television as he popularised science through simple household experiments.
He made science accessible to everybody and turned the boring things you learned at school into fun.
In the lecture theatre or on the television screen, the professor was an awesome sight in full cry. He gesticulated, he talked all around the subject, he brushed his hands through his hair. Boiled eggs were sucked into milk bottles. Candles were lit and extinguished for lack of oxygen.

He was well published, among them Why is it so? - 1971, The Kitchen Professor 1972; Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds 1982; and his autobiography, The Days of My Life 1989. He also had scores of articles in the The American Journal of Physics; Demonstrations in Physics 1969.

Professor Miller was diagnosed with leukaemia in early March 1987 and died at his home in Los Angeles in April of the same year. He was 78.

“I find this place where I get the mostest light – the mostest light. The mostest.
That’s the superlative of ‘most’. I’m reciting something of Euclid. Beautiful, you should read it.
‘Normal’ does not mean ‘ordinary’ or ‘commonplace’. It means ‘perpendicular’ in our language”.

I think Professor Julius Sumner Miller is well deserved of a place on this post about interesting people.

Electric shock prank with Professor Julius Sumner Miller - Why Is It So?
Professor Julius Sumner Miller - Australian TV Ad Commercial 1981
 
Total Aussie theme this post.
Don Bradman
Knighted by King George VI in 1949, Sir Donald Bradman is regarded by many as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket and was one of Australia's most revered sporting personalities.
Born at Cootamundra, New South Wales, in 1908, the fifth and youngest child of George Bradman and Emily.
The Bradman family moved to Bowral in 1911 and took its place in the activities of the local community. Cricket was one of the district's popular sports and the young Don Bradman showed an interest from an early age.
When there was no-one to play cricket with him, he devised his own way of perfecting various techniques, using a cricket stump to hit a golf ball thrown against the tank-stand at the rear of the Bradman house.
(eye like a gimlet - someone who is sharp-eyed or observant to the nth degree;)

At the age of twelve, he scored his first century for Bowral High School; at seventeen he was the youngest member of the Bowral cricket team, where his ability to make runs broke the club’s records.

Don Bradman played in 52 Test matches for Australia from 1928 to 1948. World War II interrupted his career at its peak.

He batted 80 times against England, the West Indies, South Africa and India for 6996 runs at that average of 99.94.

Bradman made 29 Test hundreds.

Discounting his 10 not outs and his multiple hundreds, this means Bradman exceeded the century more often than every third time he went out to bat.

His nearest contemporary in batting genius, England’s Walter Hammond, made only 253 more runs in 33 more Test matches and another 60 innings at an average of 41 less than Bradman. Hammond’s 22 hundreds came at a rate greater than every sixth time he went out to bat.

Bradman made 12 Test double-centuries or more, with 334 and 304 against England and 299 not out against South Africa the highest.

In all first-class cricket Don Bradman scored 28,067 runs at an average of 95.14 with 117 centuries and a highest score of 452 not out. He hit 37 double-centuries, six of them over 300.
Sir Donald Bradman | Sport Australia Hall of Fame
 

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