When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

Casey made some comment, but his mind was busy as he considered the man.

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

Casey heard the voice distinctly and he knew who it was, but it took him a while to make the mental readjustment and control the disturbance inside his head.

Under normal circumstances Casey was a little fussy when people told him what to do with pictures he had taken.

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

However, Casey was scheduled to be the fifth batter of the inning, and the first two batters ( Cooney and Barrows ) did not reach base.

: For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

It was influenced not just by name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him " strikeout Casey ".

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

In 1955, Bob Casey, a well-known " sock hop " DJ, brought the two-turntable system to the U. S. Throughout the 1950s, payola continued to be a problem and one result of the payola scandal was tighter control of the music by station management.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

Thayer ’ s last piece, dated June 24, 1888, was a ballad entitled " Casey " (" Casey at the Bat ").

Two mysteries remain about the poem: whether anyone or anyplace was the real-life Casey and Mudville, and, if so, their actual identities.

On the possible model for Casey, Thayer dismissed the notion that any single living baseball player was an influence.

A 2004 book by Howard W. Rosenberg, Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U. S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, reprints a 1905 Thayer letter to a Baltimore scribe who was asking about the poem's roots.

During the making of the film and subsequent promotion campaign Phoenix stayed in character including a notorious interview with David Letterman and the film maker Casey Affleck maintained the ruse that the film was true, only later admitting that it was not.

The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee ( as Grub Street Productions ) in association with Grammnet ( 2004 ) and Paramount Network Television.

In November 2011, Newtown Democratic Council candidates accused SEPTA board Chairman Pasquale Deon and the agency ’ s general manager, Joe Casey, of improperly meddling in borough politics regarding use of the Newtown Station site parking lot.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

In October 2010 the club was taken over by shareholder Oliver Ash and Terry Casey with Paul Bowden-Brown stepping down as Chairman.

The club's majority shareholder Oliver Byrne suffered a brain tumour ( he died in August 2007 ) and Joe Casey was installed as Chairman.

Casey asked both DNC Chairman Ron Brown and Ann Richards, the convention's chairwoman, for a speaking spot.

He exited Global Crossing after only seven months and was replaced by then board member and Vice Chairman Thomas Casey.

( Jan. 28, 2009 ) President of the United States | President Barack Obama, with Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff ; Gen. George W. Casey, U. S. Army chief of staff ; Gen. James E. Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the President's first visit to the Pentagon as the Commander-in-Chief.

Casey Fenton remains Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from St. Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games.

Nobody's mentioned it, but when ol' Casey Stengel takes over as boss of the New York Mets, he'll be the only baseballight ever to wear the uniform of all New York area clubs, past and present: Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, and now the Mets.

* Gardner, Martin, " The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey ", New York: Clarkson Potter.

On March 31, 2007, Katie Zezima of The New York Times penned an article called " In ' Casey ' Rhubarb, 2 Cities Cry ' Foul!

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Kurt Vonnegut's 1974 interview with Joe David Bellamy and John Casey, published in The New Fiction and in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, contained a discussion of The New Yorkers influence:

It struck down single-sex state schools as a violation of equal protection ( United States v. Virginia ), laws against sodomy as violations of substantive due process ( Lawrence v. Texas ), and the line item veto ( Clinton v. New York ), but upheld school vouchers ( Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ) and reaffirmed Roes restrictions on abortion laws ( Planned Parenthood v. Casey ).

Future Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit the first post-season homerun in stadium history while playing with the opposing New York Giants.

Three New Urbanism communities are under construction, including Crown Farm, Watkins Mill Town Center ( Casey East and West ), and the massive " Science City ".

One of the friars of this province, Father Solanus Casey, was noted for the holiness of his life, serving as the porter of several Capuchin friaries both in Michigan and New York City for decades.

* Casey Merrill, former running back of the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints ( NFL ).

* Jack Casey ( born 1935 ), member of the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly, who also served as mayor of Palmyra.

* Casey Farm ( 1725 )-An original colonial plantation that is today one of the oldest operational farms in New England.

Casey served as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's chief engineer during the Battle of Bataan, in the jungles and mountains of New Guinea and the Philippines, and during the occupation of Japan.

Later, Casey worked for Schenley Industries from 1951 until his retirement in 1965, and was chairman of the New York City Transit Authority from 1953 to 1955.

Hugh John Casey was born in Brooklyn, New York on 7 June 1898, the son of John J. Casey, a plumbing and heating contractor, and Margaret L. Casey.

Returning to the United States in June 1935, Casey was posted to Eastport, Maine as chief of the Engineering Division at the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project, a New Deal public works project.

A native of Elmhurst, Queens, New York, Casey graduated from Fordham University in 1934 and earned a law degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1937.