IOC President Avery Brundage made little reference to the murdered athletes during a speech praising the strength of the Olympic movement and equating the attack on the Israeli sportsmen with the recent arguments about encroaching professionalism and disallowing Rhodesia's participation in the Games, which outraged many listeners.

* September 28 – Avery Brundage, American sports official ( d. 1975 )

He won the awards easily, winning three events, and was named to the pentathlon team, which also included future International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage.

US Olympic officials, including former teammate and later president of the IOC Avery Brundage, rebuffed several attempts, with Brundage once saying, " Ignorance is no excuse.

He became senior vice-president in 1968, and succeeded Avery Brundage to the presidency of the IOC, being elected at the 73rd IOC Session in Munich, held prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics-between 21 and 24 August 1972.

The museum owes its origin to a donation to the city of San Francisco by Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage, who was a major collector of Asian art.

In 1952, he retired from this position and was succeeded by Avery Brundage.

He was a great admirer of American athletic programs, and in 1929 toured the U. S. for five weeks with Lewald ; during this trip he formed a strong friendship with Avery Brundage, an American Olympic official who would play a major role in the controversy over the 1936 Olympics ( and in Olympic history for decades to come ).

Diem's old friend Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee, was dispatched to appraise the facts ; in Berlin, Diem convinced Brundage that Jews were not being excluded, though he likely knew otherwise.

After the 1972 retirement of IOC President Avery Brundage, the Olympic amateurism rules were steadily relaxed and in many areas amount only to technicalities and lip service.

As a member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights ( OPHR ) he originally advocated a boycott of the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games unless four conditions were met: South Africa and Rhodesia uninvited from the Olympics, the restoration of Muhammad Ali ’ s world heavyweight boxing title, Avery Brundage to step down as president of the IOC, and the hiring of more African-American assistant coaches.

Some people ( particularly IOC president Avery Brundage ) felt that a political statement had no place in the international forum of the Olympic Games.

United States Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage requested, during or shortly after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, that a system be established to examine female athletes.

* Avery Brundage

While a boycott by the United States was suggested due to Germany's National Socialist regime, it was not implemented as the President of the United States Olympic Committee, Avery Brundage, felt that politics should be kept separate from sport.

This created a tense showdown between the USOC's president, Avery Brundage, the LIHG, the Swiss organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

The IOC's Avery Brundage was not supportive of Israel's desire to compete, saying: " I cannot understand why anyone wants to go where he is not wanted ".

Carlos became a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights ( OPHR ), and originally advocated a boycott of the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games unless four conditions were met: withdrawal of South Africa and Rhodesia from the games, restoration of Muhammad Ali ’ s world heavyweight boxing title, Avery Brundage to step down as president of the IOC, and the hiring of more African-American assistant coaches.

IOC president Avery Brundage deemed a political statement unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games was supposed to be.

By the time of the national AAU championships of 1915, held in conjunction with the World's Fair in San Francisco, he became the national decathlon champion, finishing some 500 points ahead of a man by the name of Avery Brundage, who would later head the International Olympic Committee.

* Avery Brundage, athlete, construction, president US and International Olympic Committees ( USOC and IOC )

Avery Brundage, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler ’ s regime and denied that the Nazis followed anti-Semitic policies.

Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg stated that Avery and his laboratory provided " the historical platform of modern DNA research " and " betokened the molecular revolution in genetics and biomedical science generally.

Johns ' account to Paul Avery of the Chronicle indicates her abductor left his car and searched for her in the dark with a flashlight ; however, in one report she made to the police, she stated he did not leave the vehicle.

Rangers head coach John Tortorella, who, while working as an analyst for TSN, had previously stated that Avery was a " selfish ass " and that he had no business in the NHL, said that he was now willing to give him a second chance.

During an interview with Animation Magazine, Wasson stated that he was influenced by Tex Avery and early Disney shorts when he created the look for the show.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

Robert Adam's brother James was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of Clérisseau ; he invented a British Order, of which his ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting, is at the Avery Library, Columbia University.

In 1935, he was promoted to animator, and assigned to work with new Schlesinger director Tex Avery.

There was no room for the new Avery unit in Schlesinger's small studio, so Avery, Jones, and fellow animators Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, and Sid Sutherland were moved into a small adjacent building they dubbed " Termite Terrace ".

The exact nature of the transforming principle ( DNA ) was verified in the experiments done by Avery, McLeod and McCarty and by Hershey and Chase.

Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

Northup was portrayed by Avery Brooks.

Among them were the New York Philharmonic's Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, which was held March 15 and 16, 2010 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and hosted by David Hyde Pierce.

The version of the song was recorded with Kronos Quartet, with Greg Cohen, Philip Glass, and The Dalai Lama at the benefit concert " Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation " at Avery Fisher Hall, recorded on September 21, 2003.

The first important deal for the company was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, from theatrical impresario David Belasco.

By the end of the decade, a new Schlesinger production team, including directors Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Chuck Jones was formed.

The legendary animation director Tex Avery was the producer of the first Raid " Kills Bugs Dead " commercials in 1966, which were very successful for the company.

The first published report of a man with a 47, XYY karyotype was by internist and cytogeneticist Avery Sandberg and colleagues at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York in 1961.

Sewell Avery, another businessman, had supported the museum within the Commercial Club and was selected as its first president of the board of directors.

Oswald Theodore Avery ForMemRS ( October 21, 1877 – February 2, 1955 ) was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher.

Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944, with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, ' 40s and ' 50s.

The lunar crater Avery was named in his honor.

Avery was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.