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The 27th overall pick of last night’s NBA Draft is an athletic big man of the like that Boston hasn’t had on its roster in years.Williams wasn’t considered likely to be available to the Celtics heading into the Draft, so you need not feel bad if you are unfamiliar with him as a prospect. We’ve outlined 10 important facts about the Williams to help you get to know him.1. HE’S A POTENTIAL STEALThe Celtics may have taken Williams at the back-end of the first round, but most draft analysts pegged him to be taken substantially earlier in the night. He’s athletically gifted enough to have been considered by teams in the lottery.Questions about Williams’ attitude and health precipitated his fall to the Celtics, but it would appear that Boston is comfortable with both of those things moving forward. It’s rare to have a shot at a player of Williams’ talent level available so late. The Celtics should be celebrating the opportunity to roll the dice on him.2. HE’S A WINDMILL SAVANTTo be clear, we’re talking about the dunk here, not the structure used to harness the energy of the wind. Williams is a freakish athlete capable of hammering home some monster slams, the windmill being perhaps the most impressive in his bag of tricks.Here he is flushing one against UNC.And another against Providence.3. HE SHARES A NAME WITH A 75 YEAR OLD ARTISTThis is included as a heads up for anyone Googling the name Robert Williams. The player that the Celtics just drafted is not, it turns out, a painter and cartoonist.As for the man he shares a namesake with, Wikipedia describes him as follows.“Robert L. Williams, often styled Robt. Williams (born March 2, 1943), is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. Williams was one of the group of artists who produced Zap Comix, along with other underground cartoonists, such as Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre...

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All material is published with kind permission of the Mackay family. We thank them for their support and generosity in allowing us access to their archive. “My German Prisons” is the title of an extremely interesting book which has been written by Captain H.G. Gilliland, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, and published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, at 6/- net.The writer tells a plain and unvarnished take of his experiences during the two-and-a-half years he was a prisoner of war in Germany. He has dedicated the book to Mr James W. Gerard, late U.S.A. Ambassador to the Imperial Court at Berlin, to whom, he says, every British prisoner owes a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid.In his revelations he discloses the relentless and savage character of the Hun, and narrates numerous instances of his brutality to prisoners of war. In one chapter he deals exclusively with the vile treatment meted out to him and other officers in a fortress which he rightly terms “The Hell-hole of Ingolstadt.”He gives descriptions of escapes, and also of the successful attempt made by himself and others when they jumped from a train in which they were being conveyed to another camp in order to gain their liberty.It is quite a thrilling account of their adventurous journey across Germany attended by many trials and privations. Their eluding of the German sentries and the crossing of the frontier into Holland provides a long and exciting episode.His companion in escape was Captain Douglas Stewart, of High Church, Morpeth, and the writer states: “A more staunch fellow in a hazard of this kind could not possibly be desired.”Captain Stewart, on his safe return to England, married the eldest daughter of Mr R.C. Oliver, of Bowmer Bank, Morpeth, and Captain Gilliland was the best man. MORPETH VOLUNTEERSA very interesting handicap shooting competition was held by the Morpeth Company of the 4th Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers at the miniature range on Tuesday evening. There was a large entry.A scratch competition was ...