During the war, an Army base, Camp Ashby, was temporarily sited in Berkeley.

An Astros lead was lost when Bob Boone hit a two out single in the second, but the Astros tied the game in the sixth with an Alan Ashby single scoring Denny Walling.

The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

David Ashby was ' outed ' by his wife after sleeping with men.

See album This was probably influenced by the ambitious 1970 album by jazz-soul harpist Dorothy Ashby, " The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby ," which has become something of a cult classic.

Staines Rugby Football Club which used to play at the Lammas ( a recreation ground on Wraysbury Road, which was also known as the Ashby Recreation Ground ) relocated to The Reeves ( on Snakey Lane, near Hanworth ) in the 1960s but still proudly bears the name of the town with teams named Swans, Cobs and Mucky Ducks.

The screenplay was reshaped significantly by the circle of talent who would eventually bring it to the screen: Fonda, Ashby, Wexler, Jon Voight, producer Hellman and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones.

He was replaced by Hal Ashby.

For director Ashby, this was his second film about the 1960s since his 1975 film Shampoo: where in ' Shampoo ' he dealt with the beautiful people of the 1960s immersed in the good life and not thinking about Vietnam, Coming Home found others dealing with the horrors of the war and its tragic after effects.

It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor ( Bruce Dern ), Best Supporting Actress ( Penelope Milford ), Best Director ( Hal Ashby ), Best Film Editing ( Don Zimmerman ), and Best Picture ( Jerome Hellman ).

Ashby was first settled in 1676 and was officially incorporated in 1767.

Ashby is on the eastern fringe of the Red River Valley, which was carved out by ancient glaciers.

Ashby was the boyhood home of author / illustrator Charles Smith-Dewey, aka Uncle Hyggly, who penned a regional favorite about a dairy farmer who filled in one Christmas for an ailing Santa Claus -- " Mr. Gonopolis And His 12 Holsteins -- A Christmas Story.

This was built at the present site of Fort Ashby village and is still in use as a dwelling, being owned and occupied by Mr. Thomas F. Pyles.

The only really important battle at Fort Ashby occurred in 1756 when Lieutenant Robert Rutherford and his company of rangers was defeated there by a band of French and Native Americans.

It was during this siege that Colonel John Ashby while out of the fort on what is now Cemetery Hill was attacked by the Native Americans and made a most remarkable escape to the fort.

Colonel Ashby was later put in command of the fort and seems to have remained there until the Revolutionary War or after.

On April 22, 1756, Washington wrote to Ashby that if he was attacked by Native Americans to wait for the cover of darkness then blow up the fort and retreat to Fort Cumberland, taking what ammunition they could.

Wilkins was likely born at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire.

In the late 1960s the Grove-Shafter Freeway was completed and replaced Broadway as the main route to the Caldecott Tunnel from Oakland as well as replacing Ashby for traffic coming from San Francisco.

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin ' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off.

North Lincolnshire Council is based in Pittwood House off Ashby Road ( former A159 ) next to Festival Gardens.

By the time, they sold off part of the Ultimate Play the Game label to U. S. Gold and formed in 1985 a sub-division inside Ashby Computers and Graphics Ltd. named Rare Ltd.

Russell countered by holding fire as long as possible, to allow the French to come closer ; Almonde, in the van extended to try to overlap the French line, while Admiral Ashby, with the rear and some way off, sought to close and bring his Blue squadron into action.

There are also 2 cricket teams Shepshed Town and Shepshed Messengers who play at Pudding Bag Lane off Ashby Road.

Russell countered by holding fire as long as possible, to allow the French fleet to close ; Almonde tried to extend his line to overlap the French van, while Ashby was still some way off and trying to close.

With John Smoltz on the mound, the Braves were staked out to a 1 – 0 lead when Andruw Jones hit a solo home run to lead off the third inning off Andy Ashby.

At Shackerstone station, there was once a junction where one section branched off towards Moira and Ashby and the other went towards Coalville Junction.

This was a deep pool which stood off Cold Ashby Lane and was used by the local fire service as a water supply for many years.

Because of his critical and ( relative ) commercial success, shortly after the success of Coming Home, Ashby was able to form a production company under the auspices of Lorimar.

Remaining defiant in his squabbles with producers and Simon, Ashby was eventually fired in the final stages of production ; the completed film was a critical and commercial failure.

The album attracted attention, however, in the wake of the commercial breakthrough of its follow-up, Tea for the Tillerman, and with the inclusion of three of its songs (" Trouble ", " I Wish, I Wish ", and " I Think I See the Light ") in Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins's black comedy Harold and Maude in 1971.

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

", " On the Road to Find Out ", " Tea for the Tillerman " and " Miles from Nowhere ") were featured in the Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins ' black comedy film titled Harold and Maude, in 1971.

From then until he died twenty years later Hines recorded endlessly both solo and with jazz notables like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck ( they recorded duets in 1975 ), Jaki Byard ( duets in 1972 ), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington ( duets in 1966 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland ( duets in 1970 ), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson ( duets in 1968 ), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Rushing, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Jack Teagarden, Clark Terry, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Venuti, Earle Warren, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson ( duets in 1965 & 1970 ), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode and Lester Young.

Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers, resuscitating the career of a brilliant actor who many felt had lapsed into self-parody.

" The impact of my musical legacy was due in part to the fact that Hal Ashby embraced my albums and used them as a soundtrack for his amazing film Harold and Maude.

The initial membership was William Ross Ashby, Horace Barlow, John Bates, George Dawson, Thomas Gold, W. E. Hick, Victor Little, Donald MacKay, Turner McLardy, P. A. Merton, John Pringle, Harold Shipton, Donald Sholl, Eliot Slater, Albert Uttley, W. Grey Walter and John Hugh Westcott.

* Tenor Stuff ( 1961, Columbia Lansdowne Jazz )-with Harold Ashby

Pablo worked on several films with his closet friend the late film director Hal Ashby, including Harold and Maude, Bound For Glory, Being There as well as Co-Directing The Rolling Stones, Let's Spend the Night Together documentary.

He also played the psychiatrist in the film Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Bud Cort, who was also in the movie version of M * A * S * H.