My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England.

However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

This was in accordance with the agreement that Æthelred and Alfred had made earlier that year in an assembly at Swinbeorg.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.

Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the North Devon shore.

Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes ' advantage.

Alfred analysed the defects of the military system that he had inherited and implemented changes to remedy them.

King Athelstan of Kent and Ealdorman Ealhhere had defeated a Viking fleet in 851, capturing nine ships, and Alfred himself had conducted naval actions in 882.

And, Offa is not known to have issued a law code, leading historian Patrick Wormald to speculate that Alfred had in mind the legatine capitulary of 786 that was presented to Offa by two papal legates.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Ethandrun by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.

* Interview of Alfred McCoy on CIA mind control research

Alfred Russel Wallace believed qualitative novelties could arise through the process of spiritual evolution, in particular the phenomena of life and mind, Wallace attributed these novelties to a supernatural agency.

Alfred Deakin described him as " though not rich or versatile, his personality was massive, durable and imposing, resting upon elementary qualities of human nature elevated by a strong mind.

Alfred Yarrow's strong naval engineering capabilities and inventive mind were behind a number of inventions designed to drive ships ever faster.

In the introduction Sagan presents his thesis — that " the mind ... a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more "— in reference to the works of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

In Alfred Bester's 1953 novel The Demolished Man, the protagonist uses a jingle specifically crafted to be a catchy, irritating nuisance as a tool to block mind readers from reading his mind.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the " co-discoverer " of evolution by natural selection, believed that the human mind was too complex to have evolved gradually, and began over time to subscribe to a theory of evolution that took more from Spiritualism than it did the natural world.

The biologist and spiritualist Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 – 1913 ) believed that qualitative novelties could arise through the process of spiritual evolution, in particular the phenomena of life and mind, Wallace attributed these novelties to a supernatural agency.

In return, Lyta would remove a telepathic block placed in his mind by Alfred Bester.

His contemporary, Alfred Deakin, described him as " endowed with a musical voice, good presence, fine flow of language, great quickness of mind, readiness of retort and a good deal of industry, ability and humour, ... only disqualified from marked successes by his utter instability, egregious egotism, want of consistency and violence of temper ".

Alan Alvarez wrote about " the fashion for the diluted near-verse designed for mass readings and poetry-and-jazz concerts ", linking it with pop lyrics as " the logic of a traditional form at its weariest ", scolding " the poet resigns his responsibilities " and concluding, " what he offers is not poetry ", a criticism remarkably similar to that made by F. Dalton in The Times Literary Supplement, on 31 June 1917 about " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ": " The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself.

S. C. Mittal believes that Hunter " represented the official mind of the bureaucratic Victorian historians in India ", of whom James Talboys Wheeler and Alfred Comyn Lyall were other examples.

To the flourishing state of learning thus introduced into England, and for a short time maintained, King Alfred appears to allude in the preface to his translation of Pope Gregory I's Liber Pastoralis Curae, in the latter part of the ninth century, where he says that it often came into his mind what wise men there were in the country, both laymen and ecclesiastics, in a former age ; how the clergy in those happy times were diligent both to teach and to study, and how foreigners then came hither to acquire learning and wisdom ; whereas now, in his own day, if any Englishman desired to make himself a scholar, he was obliged to go abroad for instruction.

Alfred Escher initially favoured a trans-Alpine link via the Lukmanier, he changed his mind and became an advocate of the Gotthard project.

On New Year's Eve, Alfred Harcourt drove him up the Hudson to Bill Brown's Training Camp, a well-known establishment for the speedy if temporary rehabilitation of drunkards who could no longer help themselves.

-- New York Central Railroad president Alfred E. Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the threat of bankruptcy if the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads merge.

An 1855 paper on the " introduction " of species, written by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species.

When Stigand, who was acting as intermediary, conveyed the king's jest that Godwin could have his peace if he could restore Alfred and his companions alive and well, Godwin and his sons fled, going to Flanders and Ireland.

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film " certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best ".

Though no Mercian king was ever named Alfred, let alone three, if this story has any historical basis ( which Leland himself rejected ) it must presumably relate to Æthelbald.

Mother Alfred Moes and the Sisters of Saint Francis ( a teaching order ) were called in to act as nurses despite having been trained as teachers and with little if any medical experience.

After the crisis had subsided, Mother Alfred Moes approached W. W. Mayo about establishing a hospital in Rochester if he agreed to staff the hospital.

Guthrum might have succeeded in conquering all of Wessex if he had not suffered a defeat at the hands of Alfred at the Battle of Edington in 878.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Alfred Jodl said that " if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions.

Duffy, who has become unethically involved with Nassau and will reap a financial windfall if MacHardie invests in the company, threatens to blackmail Alfred unless he suppresses his report.

However, the constitutions of both duchies excluded the British heir apparent from the ducal thrones if there were other eligible male heirs, although Albert Edward, Prince of Wales had already renounced his claim to the ducal throne in favour of his next brother, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

GM's revered chairman, Alfred Sloan, was so upset about the book that he “ simply treated it as if it did not exist ,” Drucker later recalled, “ never mentioning it and never allowing it to be mentioned in his presence .”

King Alfred's Monument When translated from the Anglo-Saxon, the name of the isle, Æthelinga íeg, is often thought to mean the Island of Princes ; if correct this might suggest that the island had royal connections prior to Alfred.

Even if Alfred had caught up with the Danish force, it is unlikely that he could have accomplished anything.

The most common definition is that premature ejaculation occurs if the man ejaculates within two minutes of penetration ; however, a survey by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s demonstrated that three quarters of men ejaculate within two minutes of penetration in over half of their sexual encounters.

The series also shows that it was Alfred who started the museum, hoping it would be useful if the city of Gotham ever fully accepted Batman, somewhat like the Flash Museum.

Addressed to Alfred Tennyson Esqre: if Absent, to be opened by Mrs Tennyson

These comments were written by the leading communist intellectual Alfred Klahr ( under his pseudonym " Rudolf "), after being asked in 1936 by the communist leadership in exile in Prague if the theoretical notion of an independent Austrian nation separate from Germany existed.

His efforts to cover up Jeannie's antics, because of his fear that he would be dismissed from the space program if her existence were known, brings him to the attention of NASA's resident psychiatrist, US Air Force Colonel Dr. Alfred Bellows.