The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.

In Concord, Bob Fogg was the most prominent New Hampshire boy with wings.

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

) Wishing to show that aviation was dependable and here to stay, Bob Fogg always made a point of taking off each morning on the dot of seven, disregarding rain, snow and sleet in true postal tradition.

It was Bob Carroll, who had suddenly found himself imbued with the spirit of Garryowen.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

In addition, a special award was given to Bob ( Bevo ) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of the season because of a knee injury.

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

Authors Martin Walker and Bob Woodward state Clinton's innovative use of sound bite-ready dialogue, personal charisma, and public perception-oriented campaigning was a major factor in his high public approval ratings.

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said " these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music ... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I ’ m about.

In the comic, minor characters like Earl, Billy Bob, Clark Cobb, and Mistress Cora Anthrax would get repeated appearances ; Earl was quite regular, and Anthrax was in two issues and got to answer a letter's page.

After not being taken seriously about what he was seeing, Crew brought in his friend, Bob Titmus, to cast the prints in plaster.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

The university was founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1883 – 1968 ).

It has been mass produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on The Simpsons to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies.

On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.

In this period he became known internationally as " Mister Guitar ", inspiring an album named Mister Guitar, engineered by both Bob Ferris and Bill Porter, Ferris's replacement.

Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting / fishing, cooking and card playing from an illiterate named Bob Davis who lived by the river.

In 2008, the museum's library was officially named the Bob Hope Memorial Library in honor of one the station's most famous immigrants.

We have a source that emits electron – positron pairs, with the electron sent to destination A, where there is an observer named Alice, and the positron sent to destination B, where there is an observer named Bob.

He has been named " Phooey Duck " by Disney comic editor Bob Foster.

The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.

But there was a producer on that show, a man named Bob Justman .... six, seven years later, I get this call from Bob Justman and he ’ s working at Paramount on this new Star Trek series and he said I remember your love of the show, we ’ ve got this character, would you be interested in coming in and seeing us?

After three consecutive losing seasons, the Giants named Brian Sabean as their new general manager in 1997, replacing Bob Quinn.

Three members of Green Bay's secondary, the strongest aspect of their defense, were named to the Pro Bowl: defensive backs Willie Wood, Herb Adderley, and Bob Jeter.

Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except for one named Bob.

While waiting in the lobby to confront Charlie, she meets a petty thief named Bob.

Porky had a descendent in Loonatics Unleashed named Pinkster Pig ( who was also voiced by Bob Bergen ), an old friend of Danger Duck ( who was Daffy Duck's Descendant ).

When one of the Peugeot racers remained in the United States during World War I and parts could not be acquired from France for the 1914 season, owner Bob Burma had it serviced in the shop of Harry Miller by a young mechanic named Fred Offenhauser.

The second and most famous theme was composed by William Loose: " Bob & Merrill's Theme ", named for Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter, the show's creators and original co-executive producers.

The New York Times postulated that " the cartoonist Bob Montana inked the original likenesses of Archie and his pals and plopped them in an idyllic Midwestern community named Riverdale because Mr. Goldwater, a New Yorker, had fond memories of time spent in Hiawatha, Kan ."

Bob also has a wife named Francesca ( voiced by Maria Grazia Cucinotta ) and a son named Gino, both of whom were introduced in season 17 episode " The Italian Bob " and returned for " Funeral for a Fiend.

The committee consists of Chargers Executive Vice President Alex Spanos, Chargers public relations director Bill Johnston, San Diego Hall of Champions founder Bob Breitbard, and the presidents of the San Diego Sports Commission and the Chargers Backers Fan Club.

Also that year, The Band, along with Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan and other performers, appeared at former US President Bill Clinton's 1993 " Blue Jean Bash " inauguration party.

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

* August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

* September 27 – September 28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros ; the local army does not resist.

A photo taken by Oliver F. Atkins of Bob Dole meeting President Nixon in 1971

Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford

Bob Berney, President of Newmarket Films, described the film as " a runaway hit on DVD ," citing United States sales of more than $ 10 million.

In 1998, Walter Murch, working from all available material, re-edited the film based on the Welles memo, with Bob O ' Neil, Universal's director of film restoration, and Bill Varney, Universal's Vice President of Sound Operations, participating in the restoration.

American Bob Crist was the IPF President, and another American, Clarence Johnson, was Vice-President.

" as well as helping backing her up in a school protest on one occasion in " The President Wore Pearls ", and arriving just in time during a crucial moment such as the various times Sideshow Bob has attempted to kill Bart Simpson.

Owner Rich DeVos announced on October 21 that he was transferring ownership to his children, with the official owner role moving to son-in-law and team President Bob Vander Weide.

He and incoming Vice President Bob Boden began the biggest original programming venture since the network's inception, launching Whammy!

In 2005, University President Bob Kustra announced an ambitious road map for transforming Boise State University into a “ Metropolitan Research University of Distinction .” An integral part of this plan is the integration of the “ Campus Master Plan ” to build and expand university infrastructure to support academic programs and create and attractive and accessible learning environment.

King County was one of two counties to vote for Bob Ely over incumbent President Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic Presidential primaries.

His " Sunnylands " winter estate in Rancho Mirage, California ( near Palm Springs ) hosted gatherings with such people as President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

In the early 1970s, in the best known episode in the recent history of The Post, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.