Sugar Ray Robinson in 1989. In 2006 he was featured on a commemorative stamp by the United States Postal Service. Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst. Robinson was the youngest of three children; his eldest sister Marie was born in 1917 and his other sister Evelyn was born in 1919. His father was a cotton, peanut, and corn farmer in Georgia, who moved the family to Detroit where he initially found work in construction. According to Robinson, Smith Sr. later worked two jobs to support his family—cement mixer and sewer worker. "He had
John Walker-Smith John Walker-Smith John Walker-Smith is a gastroenterologist well known for his work in pediatrics. From 1985 until his retirement in 2001, he was professor of pediatric gastroenterology at the University of London. He also formerly served as the editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition". Walker-Smith is the senior co- author of a paper (along with Andrew Wakefield, the lead author) which identified a unique gastrointestinal condition in autistic children that may be connected to the MMR vaccine. Although there were other studies prior to this 1998 study associating various vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorders