It goes south out of Springfield into Nixa as Massey Boulevard, then turns east and intersects U. S. Route 65 north of Branson.

The extension between Springfield and Poplar Bluff was parallel to U. S. Route 65 from Springfield to near Branson, where US 160 then headed east across the Ozark Mountains.

She married the artist Clive Branson, with whom she joined the Independent Labour Party and then the Communist Party.

However, the date of the flight was delayed several times ( first because of Branson breaking his leg, then for unknown reasons ), and Richard Branson eventually never did it.

Branson and Beets then left the boat in the lake.

In 1991, in a consortium with David Frost, Richard Branson had made the unsuccessful bid for three ITV franchisees under the CPV-TV name.

Richard Branson made several world record-breaking attempts after 1985, when in the spirit of the Blue Riband he attempted the fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing.

Between 1995 and 1998 Branson, Per Lindstrand and Steve Fossett made attempts to circumnavigate the globe by balloon.

In September 2008 Branson and his children made an unsuccessful attempt at an Eastbound record crossing of the Atlantic ocean under sail in the sloop Virgin Money.

Branson made several appearances during the nineties on the BBC Saturday morning show Live & Kicking, where he was referred to as ' the pickle man ' by comedy act Trev and Simon ( in reference to Branston Pickle ).

Richard Branson commented: " We are excited to have made such good progress towards launching our first mobile business in Latin America in Chile.

One copy is in the collection of rare books in the New York Public Library and is very rarely made accessible ; another can be seen in the Bible Museum in Branson, Missouri, USA.

The London Broncos made their only Challenge Cup final appearance so far at the old Wembley Stadium in May 1999, Branson relinquished his interest in 2001 and the London Broncos brand was ' retired ' in September 2005, becoming Harlequins Rugby League under the ownership of Ian Lenagan.

When Branson was granted an alien land-holder's licence to enable him to purchase the island, it was made conditional upon Branson's agreement that any legitimate scientific expedition to study the geckos should have full and unfettered access to the island.

The Hillbillies were from the area surrounding Silver Dollar City and Branson, and references to Jim Owens and his White River float trip business and some Missouri mountain locations were made throughout the show's nine-year run.

In the film clip of ' Generals and Majors ' ( directed by Russell Mulcahy ), Virgin Records founder and chair Richard Branson has a cameo role as one of the ' majors '.

Branson also appears in a cameo early in XTC's " Generals and Majors " video.

The two-part 1991 Christmas special, " Miami Twice ", saw Richard Branson and Barry Gibb make brief cameo appearances.

After a taped introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the live comedy lineup included Jon Stewart, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, Ben Stiller, Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig, Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis ( in addition to Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharaoh, and Taran Killam from Saturday Night Live ), Rachel Dratch, Catherine Tate, David Cross & Bob Odenkirk, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman, Paul Rudd, John Oliver, Rashida Jones, Chris O ' Dowd, Peter Serafinowicz, David Walliams, Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding, Matt Berry, Micky Flanagan, Jack Whitehall, Tim Roth, Bill Hader ( as Julian Assange ), Rex Lee ( as Kim Jong-Un ), and a cameo appearance by Richard Branson.

In the 1990s, Castle performed at the Lawrence Welk-owned Champagne Theater in Branson, Missouri, as well as making a guest appearance for a show with Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra on RFD TV.

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

His organization, The Welk Group, consists of: his resort communities in Branson and Escondido ; Welk Syndication, which broadcasts the show on public television ; and the Welk Music Group, which operates record labels Sugar Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood.

Branson has been tagged as a " transformational leader " in the management lexicon, with his maverick strategies and his stress on the Virgin Group as an organisation driven on informality and information, one that is bottom-heavy rather than strangled by top-level management.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

Branson also launched the Virgin Health Bank on 1 February 2007, offering parents-to-be the opportunity to store their baby's umbilical cord blood stem cells in private and public stem cell banks.

Branson and Tony Fernandes, owner of Air Asia and Lotus F1 Racing, had a bet for the 2010 F1 season where the team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess.

Branson and Somerset County's Natirar Resort development in New Jersey, on the Natirar Estate, opened in late 2009 with the Ninety Acres Culinary Center.

The development, spearheaded by Branson and Bob Wojtowicz, sits on 500 acres which was the former estate of the King of Morocco.

A 1998 attempt at an around-the-world balloon flight by Branson, Fossett, and Lindstrand ends in the Pacific Ocean on 25 December 1998.

The boat, also known as Speedboat, is owned by NYYC member Alex Jackson, who was a co-skipper on this passage, with Branson and Mike Sanderson.

Branson has guest starred, usually playing himself, on several television shows, including Friends, Baywatch, Birds of a Feather, Only Fools and Horses, The Day Today, a special episode of the comedy Goodness Gracious Me and Tripping Over.

He is also caricatured in The Simpsons episode " Monty Can't Buy Me Love " as the tycoon Arthur Fortune, and as the ballooning megalomaniac Richard Chutney ( a pun on Branson, as in Branston Pickle ) in Believe Nothing.

The character Grandson Richard 39 in Terry Pratchett's Wings is modelled on Branson.

Branson is a Star Trek fan and named his new spaceship VSS Enterprise in honour of the famous Star Trek ships, and in 2006, reportedly offered actor William Shatner a ride on the inaugural space launch of Virgin Galactic.

In an interview in Time magazine, 10 August 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship.

In August 2007, Branson announced on The Colbert Report that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert.

In April 2011 Branson appeared on CNN's Mainsail with Kate Winslet.

Fundraising activity to support the school is notably achieved by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees.

Branson at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012

Since 2010, Branson has served as a Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN initiative which promotes universal access to broadband services.

In 2011, Branson served on the Global Commission on Drug Policy with former political and cultural leaders of Latin America and elsewhere, " in a bid to boost the effort to achieve more humane and rational drug laws.