The acquisition was engineered by two Capital Cities executives, Capital Cities Chairman Tom Murphy and Daniel Burke.

* Kenneth Burke ( 1897 – 1993 ), Cultural and literary critic and philosopher ; Harry and Tom Chapin's grandfather.

Retired NFL player Tom Burke was born in Poplar.

In March 1968 Atlantic sent Burke with Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin to Memphis to record what would be his final Atlantic album, I Wish I Knew, at Chips Moman's American Sound Studio.

To the surprise of many Fitzgerald excluded Richie Ryan, Richard Burke and Tom O ' Donnell, former Fine Gael stalwarts, from the cabinet.

Chapin was born into a middle-class family in New York City, the second of four children — including future musicians Tom and Steve ( born to Jeanne Elspeth ( née Burke ) and Jim Chapin, himself a percussionist ).

Others in the cast included Sonny Blake, John Hamblin, Victoria Nicholls, Jill Forster, Joy Chambers, Peter Mochrie, Kim Lewis, Penny Cook, Shane Porteous, Sheridan Jobbins, Rosalind Speirs, Queenie Ashton, Vince Martin, Ivar Kants, Lenore Smith, Noel Trevarthen, Michael C Smith, Tom Burlinson, Jan Kingsbury, Joanne Stanley, Todd Boyce, Simon Burke, Jacqui Gordon, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Bunney Brooke, Lisa Crittenden, Marty Morton, John Ewart, Benita Collings, Rebecca Rigg, David Franklin, Peter Cousens, Robyn Gibbes, Deborah Kennedy, David Argue, Alita Fahey, Martin Sacks.

" Lever had never taken part in a battle himself, but his next three books, Charles O ' Malley ( 1841 ), Jack Hinton and Tom Burke of Ours ( 1843 ), written under the spur of the writer's chronic extravagance, contain some splendid military writing and some of the most animated battle-pieces on record.

In pages of O ' Malley and Tom Burke Lever anticipates not a few of the best effects of Marbot, Thibaut, Lejeune, Griois, Seruzier, Burgoyne and the like.

But the " Galway pace ," the display he found it necessary to maintain at Templeogue, the stable full of horses, the cards, the friends to entertain, the quarrels to compose and the enormous rapidity with which he had to complete Tom Burke, The O ' Donoghue and Arthur O ' Leary ( 1845 ) made his native land an impossible place for Lever to continue in.

With little respect for unity of action or conventional novel structure, his brightest books, such as Lorrequer, O ' Malley and Tom Burke, are in fact little more than recitals of scenes in the life of a particular " hero ", unconnected by any continuous intrigue.

Where else shall we find the equals of the military scenes in O ' Malley and Tom Burke, or the military episodes in Jack Hinton, Arthur O ' Leary ( the story of Aubuisson ) or Maurice Tiernay ( nothing he ever did is finer than the chapter introducing " A remnant of Fontenoy ")?

Other noted champions were Jack Broughton, Daniel Mendoza, Jem Belcher, Hen Pearce, John Gully, Tom Cribb, Tom Spring, Jem Ward, James Burke, William " Bendigo " Thompson, Caitlin " Swan " McDonald, Ben Caunt, Tom Sayers and Jem Mace.

London's Old Vic Theatre staged a revival in 2010, with Tom Burke as Otto, Lisa Dillon as Gilda, and Andrew Scott as Leo.

Corral, in which Billy Clanton ( Church ), Frank McLaury ( Burke ), and Tom McLaury are killed, Virgil and Morgan are wounded, and the allegiance of county sheriff Johnny Behan ( Tenney ) to the Cowboys is made clear.

Thomas Burke or Tom Burke may refer to:

* Tom Burke ( Australian politician ) ( 1910 – 1973 ), Labor Party legislator for the Division of Perth

* Tom Burke ( footballer ) ( 1862 – 1914 ), Welsh footballer

* Tom Burke ( hurler ) ( before 1865 – after 1887 ), Irish hurler

* Tom Burke ( American football ) ( born 1976 ), American defensive end in National Football League

* Thomas Burke ( tenor ) also known as Tom Burke ( 1890-1969 ), British opera singer

The elected Common Pleas Court include: Judge Nadine Allen, Judge Kim Wilson Burke, Judge Ethna M. Cooper, Judge Pat DeWine, Judge Dennis S. Helmick

Meg Morris became engaged to fellow officer Dennis Cruickshank, but the relationship ended when escapee Frank Burke shot and paralysed Cruickshank.

Episode 693 featured Joan Ferguson, Dennis Cruikshank, Erica Davison, Lizzie Birdsworth, Myra Desmond, Bobbie Mitchell, Reb Kean, Frank Burke, Barbara Fields, Vera Bennett and Joyce Barry.

* Burke, Dennis.

St. Norbert's second president, Father Dennis Burke, expanded the college, anticipating the student population would eventually reach 2000.

Granny D wrote three books, all co-authored with Dennis Burke.

* Billy Burke as Firefighter Dennis Gauquin

The Five Stairsteps, known as " The First Family of Soul ", were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr .' s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth " Keni ", and briefly, Cubie.

Initially a teenage five-member brothers and sister vocal group made up of the offspring of Betty and Clarence Burke, The Five Stairsteps ( named by Mrs. Burke who thought her kids looked like stair steps when lined up according to their age ) featured lead singer Clarence Jr., Alohe, James, Dennis, and 13-year-old Kenneth (" Keni ").

Interestingly, Turner Classic Movies ’ website says of High Flyers — one of her lesser-known outings: " The surprise … is seeing her play a somewhat daffy matron, more Billie Burke than typical Margaret Dumont.

Burke Davis described Flora as " an accomplished horsewoman, and though not pretty, an effective charmer ," to whom " Stuart succumbed with hardly a struggle.

In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a " deliberative assembly ," and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

In the passage below from Language As Symbolic Action, Burke cites Hegel's coinage of the term " Thersitism ," and he proceeds to describe a version of it as a process by which an author both privileges protest in a literary work but also disguises or disowns it, so as not to distract from the literary form of the work, which must push on toward other effects than the protest per se:

( Clark, " Burke County ," p37-39 )

Smith was praised for " making dancing look manly " and for his " natural charm ," and Burke was given credit for coaching Smith while still allowing him to improvise some moves.

Burke was known as " King Solomon ," the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul ," and as the " Bishop of Soul ," and described as " the Muhammad Ali of soul ," and as " the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age.

" Burke was " the founding father of what was defined as soul music in America in the 1960s ," and " a major architect of 1960s soul, infusing post-World War II R & B with gospel roots.

At one time considered by Jerry Wexler to be " the greatest male soul singer of all time ," Burke was " a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s.

Described as both " Rabelaisian " and also as a " spiritual enigma ," " Perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music.

On February 13, 2011, in his first live appearance at the Grammy Awards, Mick Jagger, who had been influenced by Burke, paid tribute to Burke in the Grammy Awards " In Memoriam ' segment by singing " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love ," backed by Raphael Saadiq and his band.

At the age of 7 Solomon preached " He is My Life ," the first of many sermonettes, in Solomon's Temple, In his youth, " he was so charismatic in the pulpit that he was known as the Boy Wonder Preacher ," and by all accounts, " young Burke was a frantic sermonizer, spellbinding in his delivery.

From an early age Burke struggled with a " fondness for food " and with obesity, indicating in 2005: " I was 160 when I was 9 ," and recalled that " at nine I passed for 16.

In response Burke wrote his first song, " Christmas Presents From Heaven ," which he recorded in the local penny arcade and played for her on 18 December 1954, the day before her death at the age of 54.

Burke sang " The Old Ship of Zion ," defeating the other 11 competitors.

" Berman, known as " Queen Bee ," was a formidable Jewish woman of Austrian and German ancestry, who had been president of Apollo Records since May 1948, attempted to transform Burke into a pop crooner, and is reported to have said, " Let's take this church boy and make him the next Harry Belafonte.

In April 1957, Burke, who was at this time promoted as " Lord Solomon ," appeared on an all-star show at Chicago's Regal Theater with Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, The Dells, The Spaniels, Big Maybelle, Little Esther Phillips, The Sensations, Junior Parker, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Nappy Brown, Annie Laurey, and bassist Al Smith's Orchestra.

In 1959 Philadelphia businessman Marvin Leonard " Babe " Chivian ( born 24 August 1925 ; died January 1972 ), " a body-and-fender man ," and real estate speculator, offered Burke a red Lincoln Continental convertible if Burke would agree to a management contract with him.