He began attending Shrewsbury School in 1950, where he met his future Private Eye colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker.

After almost-but-not-quite-being-accepted by Tribune ( a Labour-supporting journal edited by Michael Foot, Paul ’ s uncle ), Rushton found a place at the Liberal News, which was also employing Christopher Booker as a journalist.

Whitesboro was founded about 1901 by the Equitable Industrial Association, which had prominent black American investors including Paul Laurence Dunbar, the educator Booker T. Washington and George Henry White, the leading investor and namesake.

The night before the gig, Booker T. Jones came down with food poisoning, so Paul Shaffer stepped in at the last minute.

* Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On

Notable performers include James Booker, Duke Ellington, Kermit Ruffins, King Oliver, Jerry Reed, Artie Shaw, Lead Belly, Big Mama Thornton, Jack Teagarden, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Cassandra Wilson, Stan Kenton, Josh White, Lou Rawls, Bobby Bland, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, Doc Watson, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Van Ronk, " Spider " John Koerner, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Paul Butterfield, The Animals, The Standells, and more recently The White Stripes, the Stray Cats, the Tarbox Ramblers, Snooks Eaglin, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, and Tom Jones with Jools Holland.

These included Patricia Deevy, Diarmuid Doyle, Ursula Halligan, Nicola Byrne, Ronan Price, Richard Balls, Paul Howard, Colm Murphy, Brendan Fanning, Conn O Midheach and Ed O ' Loughlin who is on the shortlist for the Booker Prize for his novel Not Untrue And Not Unkind.

A 30-man interpromotional Battle Royal, which featured: Booker T, Paul London, Heidenreich, Spike Dudley, Nunzio, Funaki, Doug Basham, Danny Basham, Orlando Jordan, Mark Jindrak, Luther Reigns, Scotty 2 Hotty, Hardcore Holly, Charlie Haas, Billy Kidman, and Akio from SmackDown and Simon Dean, William Regal, Tajiri, Rob Conway, Sylvain Grenier, Snitsky, The Hurricane, Rosey, Chris Masters, Viscera, Rhyno, Val Venis, Tyson Tomko, and Maven from Raw.

By all accounts, these sessions were a three-day, around-the-clock party, which not only reunited the original MGs ( Steve Cropper, Donald " Duck " Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T. and the MGs fame ) for the first time in three years, but also featured Carl Perkins, Mark Lindsay ( of Paul Revere & the Raiders ), and Wayne Jackson plus The Memphis Horns.

* Christopher Booker The Seventies: Portrait of a Decade Allen Lane, 1980 ( chapters: " Paul Johnson: The Convert Who Went over the Top " pp238 – 44 and " Facing the Catastrophe " pp304 – 7

Paul Bailey's novels include At The Jerusalem ( 1967 ), which is set in an old people's home, and which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers ' Award ; Peter Smart's Confessions ( 1977 ) and Gabriel's Lament ( 1986 ), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction ; and Sugar Cane ( 1993 ), a sequel to Gabriel's Lament.

Paul Booker was nothing more than a cheap crook.

They caught the attention of Extreme Championship Wrestling Booker Paul Heyman.

He also founded the town of Whitesboro in southern New Jersey as a planned community developed for African Americans, together with prominent investors such as Booker T. Washington, the educator, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet, along with two daughters of Judge Mifflin W. Gibbs: Ida Gibbs Hunt and Harriet Gibbs Marshall.

The Arts District is home to 13 facilities and organizations including The Annette Strauss Artist Square, the Belo Mansion / Dallas Bar Association, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Theater Center, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, St. Paul United Methodist Church, Fellowship Church, Trammell Crow Center, and the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art.

Its next album, Something In The Wind, was released in 1969, and replaced Gene Murrow and Ruth Ben-Zvi with Paul McCandless and Scott Booker.

Booker T of Harlem Heat asked, " Who is this motherfucker?

Booker Ole Anderson eventually asked her to become part of the roster as a manager.

On TSN's Off the Record, Booker T was asked by host Michael Landsberg why the Invasion -- which he stated should have been one of the biggest money angles in wrestling history -- was in his words a failure on pay-per-view.

Throughout his mayoralty, Fairleigh Dickinson University ( FDU )' s public policy center PublicMind, has asked constituents whether or not they have heard of Mayor Booker, and whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him.

But within days of arriving at Stax, Whitsett was asked to take charge of the company ’ s music publishing division, East / Memphis Music Corp., which included works written or recorded by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas and Booker T. & the MGs.

Many of WCW's top wrestlers had contracts with AOL Time Warner, WCW's parent company, and were willing to sit at home rather than wrestle for less money ; Booker T, the reigning WCW Champion at the time of WWF's purchase, was a notable exception, agreeing to a buyout of the remainder of his contract with AOL Time Warner in order to wrestle for the WWF immediately.

Soon after the WCW / ECW Invasion storyline, Anderson took up color commentary for a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Booker T and Buff Bagwell, WCW Cruiserweight Championship match with Billy Kidman and Gregory Helms as well as another WCW Championship match between Diamond Dallas Page and Booker T, which would be his only appearances as a commentator in WWE.

At WWF Invasion, Team WCW / ECW ( Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, Rhyno, and The Dudley Boyz ) defeated Team WWF ( Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Kane, Kurt Angle, and Chris Jericho ) in a ten-man tag team match billed as the " Inaugural Brawl ".

Several top WCW and ECW talents who were top superstars in their previous companies, such as Diamond Dallas Page, Booker T., Rob Van Dam, The Dudley Boyz, Justin Credible, Raven and Tazz, were put down into low-mid card matches, while lesser-ranked WWF wrestlers who defected to the Alliance, such as Test, were given a greater push.

Only two bona fide WCW or ECW wrestlers, Booker T and Rob Van Dam, were in the match.

McMahon, Booker T and Rob Van Dam were the first wrestlers eliminated on the Alliance's team, resulting in the last survivors representing the ostensible WCW / ECW entity being two WWF wrestlers.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914 — the school ’ s 25th anniversary — Swan, Fowler, and Johnson halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus.

She and the freedman Washington Ferguson were formally married in West Virginia, and Booker took the surname Washington at school after his stepfather.

In 1942, the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington was named in his honor, the first major oceangoing vessel to be named after an African American.

Numerous high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the United States have been named after Booker T. Washington.

In 1916, the city council voted to build a school for blacks, which after it was first built, it was moved to Commerce Street, ( where it is still located today ) and named Booker T. Washington.

Carl Baker, 19 ; Anthony Freeman, 18 ; and Steven Booker, 19 ; drowned after a boat used to transport them across the lake, which was also occupied by three officers, capsized less than 100 feet from shore.

In 1901, after President Theodore Roosevelt dined in the White house with Booker T. Washington, Senator Tillman said, “ The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again .”

Chris Booker, after only a brief absence from the channel, was brought back in order to host the show.

Mysterio began a feud with King Booker after Booker won a battle royal to become the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Shortly after defeating Booker T at WrestleMania, Edge was drafted to the SmackDown!

Christian, however, regained the title at a live event on August 10, 2003 after Booker was legitimately injured.

Nash teamed up with Michaels and Booker T against Triple H, Ric Flair and Chris Jericho in a Six-man tag team match at Backlash which ended in Triple H picking up the win for his team, pinning Nash after hitting him with a sledgehammer.

Seconds after tagging in for the first time, Nash tore his quadriceps after delivering a big boot onto Booker T, immediately putting him back on the injured list.

* Booker T. Washington is often referred to as " Dr. Washington " after receiving an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College.

Owen Hart (" King of Harts "), Mabel (" King Mabel " ), Edge (" King Edge the Awesome "), Booker T (" King Booker ") and Sheamus are all wrestlers that also took on " King " nicknames after winning King of the Ring tournaments, with varying amounts of indulgence in the regal gimmick.

" It is reported that after reading Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, James E. Davis began a program of Winn-Dixie supporting historically Black colleges and universities.

After the nWo disbanded, Show achieved little success on Raw after losing matches against Jeff Hardy, Booker T, and the Dudley Boyz.

Yann Martel named a character in his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi ( 2001 ) after Poe's fictional character, Richard Parker.

This time, Biggs picked the newly-established tag team of Harlem Heat 2000, which consisted of Stevie Ray and Big T. The team feuded with Booker T. Biggs gained a ( kayfabe ) court order against Booker T, which stated he could not use the letter " T " after defeating Booker at SuperBrawl 2000 when the lights were turned off and Big T rolled Booker up when they were turned back on as per match stipulation.