Burlington aviator John J. Burns suggested the parade ground southwest of Fort Ethan Allen, and soon a dozen hastily-summoned National Guard pilots were bringing their wide-winged `` Jenny '' and DeHaviland two-seaters to rest on the frozen sod of the military base.

Bradbury's first pay as a writer was at the age of fourteen, when Burns hired him to write for the Burns and Allen show.

Sally Hardesty ( Marilyn Burns ) and her brother, Franklin ( Paul A. Partain ), travel with three friends, Jerry ( Allen Danziger ), Kirk ( William Vail ), and Pam ( Teri McMinn ), to visit the grave of the Hardestys ' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing.

* August 27 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian ( Burns And Allen ) ( b. 1895 )

The network became the home of many popular musical and comedy stars, among them Jack Benny, (" Your Canada Dry Humorist "), Al Jolson, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Kate Smith, whom Paley personally selected for his family's La Palina Hour because she was not the type of woman to provoke jealousy in American wives.

The vaudevillians and musicians who were huge after the war were the same stars who had been huge in the 30s: Benny, Crosby, Burns and Allen, Edgar Bergen all had been on the radio almost as long as there had been network radio.

" Capturing NBC's cornerstone show was coup enough, but Paley repeated in 1948 with longtime NBCers Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Red Skelton, as well as former CBS defectors Jack Benny, radio's top-rated comedian, and Burns and Allen.

District V: Alfred, Allen, Almond, Birdsall, Burns, Grove, West Almond and the Villages of Alfred, Almond & Canaseraga.

New competition came from Burns Philp, operating from what is now Kiribati, with competition from Levers Pacific Plantations from 1903 and from Captain E. F. H. Allen of the Samoa Shipping and Trading Company from 1911.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Lampchops ( 1929 ) is a comedy Vitaphone short which is a filming of a vaudeville performance by George Burns and Gracie Allen of the comedy routine " Lambchops " written by Al Boasberg.

Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos ' n ' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy ( which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume ), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.

Despite working with a cast that included Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, and Burns and Allen, under the direction of Academy Award – winning director Norman Taurog, Merman was unhappy with the experience, and she was dismayed to discover one of her musical numbers had been cut when she attended the New York opening with her family and friends.

The founders of modern American stand-up comedy include Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all of whom came from vaudeville.

This was a continuation of cartoonist Chic Young's " Dumb Dora ", and acts from vaudeville, best popularized by Burns and Allen.

" ( varying a bit from the Burns and Allen old-time radio show ).

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Burns and I had not loved each other.

Sashimi was In, Samuel Burns had suggested, because it was too far Out to stay Out, even if it was a little pretentious.

He had also stood his ground in a protest against the trial of Anthony Burns.

In the documentary television series Baseball ( 1994 ), directed by Ken Burns, Costas indicated that he had a very poor relationship with his father, but did not go into specifics.

The first Burns club, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem " The Justice of the Peace " and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns.

The lead role of Sally was given to Marilyn Burns, who had appeared previously on stage and served on the film commission board at UT Austin while studying there.

One source states the idea for the show may have come from a conversation producer Leonard Freeman had with Hawaii's then-Governor John A. Burns.

He had ` official ' homes and ` unofficial homes'all over Salford, Weaste and other inner-city Manchester districts where he lived with Mary Burns under false names to confuse the police.

Burns and other recent historians argue that the infantry were the vast majority of the Gothic force, and that the battle had little effect on the relationship between infantry and cavalry.

Burns shows that the Gothic army's cavalry arm was actually fairly small, that Valens would actually have had more cavalry and that while the role of Fritigern's cavalry was critical to his victory, the battle was a mainly infantry versus infantry affair.

In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA ’ s support for China ’ s population program “ facilitates ( its ) government ’ s coercive abortion program ”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.

In the episode " Burns ' Heir ", Hans is mistaken for Bart and accidentally " de-programmed " ( Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns ' mansion and back in with them ), apparently leading him to believe he is the son of Homer and Marge.

When it was proven that he had not, Smithers seemingly forgave Burns and demanded that the culprit be brought to justice, offering a reward for the capture of the perpetrator.

Al Jean, who thinks of Smithers as being a " Burns-sexual ", felt that had Mr. Burns been a woman, then Smithers would not be gay.

The " Fight of the Century " earned Johnson $ 65, 000 and silenced the critics, who had belittled Johnson's previous victory over Tommy Burns as " empty ," claiming that Burns was a false champion since Jeffries had retired undefeated.

The show won several Tony Awards: best musical, best actor, best supporting actor ( Burns ), best book, and best director.

His name is used several times during certain episodes of The Simpsons by industrialist Mr. Burns as an expletive (" Come on, Steinmetz, while we're still young!

Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.

Burns himself has been involved with several women and in " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", Smithers is noticeably disgusted when Burns starts looking for a female companion.

* This was parodied in several episodes of The Simpsons, including " Burns ' Heir " and " Wild Barts Can't Be Broken ", and the DVD of The Simpsons Movie.

* Edward Burns has filmed scenes of several of his films in Rockville Centre.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

The game stars Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show.

In 1999, Securitas acquired Pinkerton, and in 2000, Burns Security, and several regional security companies in the United States.

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

Modeled on and loosely associated with Burning Man, Flipside is one of several Regional Burns around the USA.

A deactivating ceremony was held in South Korea, which was attended by several members of the cast of the M * A * S * H television series, including Larry Linville ( who played Frank Burns ), and David Ogden Stiers ( who played Charles Winchester ).

Brittas's other deputy — the dim-witted Colin Weatherby ( Michael Burns ) — has several skin allergies and an infected hand.

She appeared for several years on the Burns and Allen Show, and even had her own TV show.

Some 10, 000 marchers approached Trafalgar Square from several different directions, led by ( among others ) Elizabeth Reynolds, John Burns, Annie Besant and Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who were primarily leaders of the Social Democratic Federation.

He has made several appearances on The Simpsons, including as Marge's prom date Artie Ziff in " The Way We Was ", the art teacher in " Brush with Greatness ", theater director Llewellyn Sinclair and his sister who owned a daycare center in " A Streetcar Named Marge ", Andre in " Homer's Triple Bypass ", and numerous other appearances ( including the character of Jay Sherman in the episode A Star Is Burns, which was a crossover with The Critic ).

He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books, most recently Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns / Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition.

* Park Avenue, a teletext based soap which appeared on ORACLE for several years written by Robbie Burns and Steve Regan.

Lawrie is known to have received Burns several times at the manse.

Official replicas of the " Red Special " guitar have been manufactured in varying numbers and in multiple models ( i. e. a higher-end full-featured model, and a lower-cost one lacking some of the intricacies of the former ) several times during the 1980s and 90s, most often by the Guild Guitar Company from 1983 to 1985 and again from 1993 to 1995 and by Burns Guitars from 2001 ( mass-produced models made in Korea ).

His major studio debut was 1979's Going in Style, which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg, the first of several films to mix action and comedy to great effect.

In 1976, Burns had a role in the television mini-series Helter Skelter about the real-life trial of Charles Manson and several others.