* ( with Mel Watkins ), African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today ( Library of Black America )

Its leaders were university professors Mel Watkins, James Laxer and Robert Laxer.

University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, lost his vice-president position, but managed to get elected to the party's federal council.

Mel Watkins and even Elie Martel have argued that the NDP lost a generation of volunteers and members due to the way the Waffle was handled.

In 1969, Laxer, along with his father Robert Laxer and Mel Watkins, founded the Waffle, a radical left wing group influenced by the New Left, the anti-Vietnam War movement and Canadian economic nationalism, that tried to win control of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1968, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star ; economist Abraham Rotstein ; and University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, founded the Committee for an Independent Canada.

* Watkins, Mel.

In 1969, he joined his son, James Laxer, and Mel Watkins to form the Waffle, a socialist group within the New Democratic Party.

Mel Watkins writing in The New York Times Book Review praised Gardner for adding " a touch of the plot subtlety of less insistently action-oriented thrillers.

Mel Watkins ( born May 15, 1932 ) is a Canadian political economist and activist.

* Watkins, Mel ( 1994 ).

* James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: " Madrigal ", Grove Music Online, ed.

* James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: " Madrigal ", Grove Music Online, ed.

* James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: " Madrigal ", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed.

* Frances Smith Foster, ed., A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader, 1990.

* Watkins Shaw ' Cook, E ( dgar ) T ( homas )', Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ed.

Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins, ed.

Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

Watkins came from Abergavenny.

In the 1979 spinoff of Upstairs, Downstairs entitled Thomas & Sarah, Watkins and Sarah Moffat, another major character, marry and return briefly to Abergavenny.

Another success was the Fun Section of D. C. Thomson's Scottish weekly newspaper The Sunday Post, which included the two strips Oor Wullie and The Broons by lead artist Dudley Watkins, as well as other funnies and various puzzles and adventure stories.

from 30 July to 2 November 2008, featuring original artwork from all eight decades of both ' The Beano ' and ' The Dandy ', including work by Dudley D. Watkins, David Law, Leo Baxendale and Ken Reid as well as David Sutherland and many contemporary artists.

The team were second in the constructors ' championship, aided by second places at Monaco and Watkins Glen scored by Piers Courage, driving a Brabham for the Frank Williams Racing Cars privateer squad.

Mike Mullen | Mullen ( CNO in December 2006 ) with some of his predecessors: Vern Clark | Clark, James D. Watkins | Watkins, Thomas B. Hayward | Hayward and Jay L. Johnson | Johnson

The following weekend at Watkins Glen, he drove the No. 3 Goodwrench Chevrolet to the fastest time in qualifying, earning the " True Grit " pole.

However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination.

Watkins was the first woman to be elected as the presiding minister of a mainline Protestant denomination.

In the Kardomah Café, close to the newspaper office in Castle Street, he met his creative contemporaries, including his friend the poet Vernon Watkins.

Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.

* Alexenberg, Mel, ed.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

That saved Mel Chandler.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

And so Mel Chandler got the spirit of Garryowen.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

One night on the Naktong River, Mel Chandler called on that fabled esprit de corps.

Then Mel Chandler started up the hill.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

* 1913 – Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, director, and producer ( d. 2008 )

He liked to surround himself with jazz musicians and often performed with a horn section drawn from a pool that included, among others, saxophone players Art Themen, Mel Collins, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, John Surman and trombonist Mike Zwerin.

In 1973, he formed another group, Snape, with Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, and Ian Wallace, who were previously together in King Crimson.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

* Mel Brooks as Gov.

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

" Butch " Voris, Flight Leader ; Lt. Maurice " Wick " Wickendoll, Right Wing ; Lt. Mel Cassidy, Left Wing.

Voris selected three fellow instructors to join him ( Lt. Maurice " Wick " Wickendoll, Lt. Mel Cassidy, and Lt. Cmdr.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.