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Patrolmen J. W. Slate and A. L. Crawford Jr. said they arrested Ronald M. Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma St., NW, after he assaulted the officers.
Slate said he and Crawford received cuts and scratches and their uniforms were badly torn.
" Crawford continued to dislike the name throughout her life but, she said, she " liked the security that went with it ".
Crawford was devastated, saying " I heard the news of my replacement over the radio, lying in my hospital bed ", Crawford said.
When Crawford saw the unflattering photos of both stars that appeared in the papers the next day, she said, " If that's how I look, then they won't see me anymore.
In the 2006 book, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine ( Rizzoli ), the editors cite Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, and Claudia Shiffer when quoting Vogue Magazine Editor-In-Chief, Anna Wintour, who said, " Those girls were so fabulous for fashion and totally reflected that time ... were like movie stars.
" Fish swimming in the river were identified as Grayling fish, and it is said that the residents preferred the name " Grayling " to the name " Crawford ," and renamed the area after the fish.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk is perhaps the best-remembered American composer of the 19th century, said by music historian Richard Crawford to be known for " bringing indigenous or folk, themes and rhythms into music for the concert hall ".
Crawford spent time visiting mental wards and talking to psychiatrists to prepare for her role, and said the part was the most difficult she ever played.
The Director-General ( who didn ’ t seem to be affected by such a threat ) asked Crawford about the whereabouts of his residence, and then said " if you think so much of the precious maps you ’ d better take them to Nursling ", which ended the audience.
Baseball legend, Ed Barrow, who managed Crawford in his first two years with Detroit, and went on to convert Babe Ruth to an outfielder as general manager of the Yankees, once said that “ there never was a better hitter ” than Crawford .” One of his contemporaries, Fielder Jones, said of Crawford: “ None of them can hit quite as hard as Crawford.
He said that Cobb had not been a very good fielder, “ so he blamed me .” Crawford denied intentionally trying to deprive Cobb of stolen bases, insisting that Cobb had “ dreamed that up .”
When asked why the popular show ended, Broderick Crawford said, " We ran out of crimes.
Attorney General Crawford Martin, who in 1967 issued a legal opinion that was said to have allowed a 2, 200 % increase in the bank's capitalization, was also defeated in the Democratic Primary for renomination by John L. Hill.
It's been said that Joan Crawford would go there once a week and dance the Charleston, where she allegedly won 100 dance contests.
Among the galaxy of celebrities who frequented Ciro's were Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Sidney Poitier, Anita Ekberg, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, George Raft, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Judy Garland, June Allyson and Dick Powell, Mamie Van Doren, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Peter Lawford, and Lana Turner ( who often said Ciro's was her favorite nightspot ) among many others.

Crawford and one
To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.
At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
He became one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and his tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.
The game went to a shootout with a 1 – 1 tie after overtime, but Gretzky was controversially not selected by coach Marc Crawford as one of the five shooters.
Finally, in 1926, at the age of 20, she was cast in the lead role in The Johnstown Flood ( 1926 ), the same year she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars ( with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and others ).
Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled " box office poison ".
Stories have persisted that Crawford further supplemented her income by appearing in one or more stag, or soft-core pornographic, films, although this has been disputed.
As MGM screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas recalled, " No one decided to make Joan Crawford a star.
The following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray.
Crawford, now well established as one of Hollywood's most important stars, was set for a sea-change in career terms.
However, Crawford later accused Davis of kicking her during the filming of one scene in which Jane attacks Blanche ; Crawford reportedly retaliated by wearing weights under her clothes during a scene in which Davis had to carry her.
In 1999, Playboy listed Crawford as one of the " 100 Sexiest Women of the 20th century ", ranking her # 84.
After the disappointing Conquest ( 1937 ), Garbo was one of several major stars — including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn — called " box office poison " in an open letter published by the National Theater Distributors of America.
The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford.
Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel and Phyllis Crawford, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17.
Francis Marion was one of the influences for the main character in the 2000 movie The Patriot, which according to Crawford " exaggerated the Swamp Fox legend for a whole new generation ".
In 1996, he replaced Michael Crawford in the Las Vegas show EFX, re-writing it into one of the Strip's favorite shows – although Cassidy was forced to resign after he injured his foot during a performance.
Some young TV stars were being hustled into studios to make recordings ; for example, ex-Mousketeer Annette Funicello became one of the first big female idols as well as The Lennon Sisters whom had cut out dolls and were always on the covers of the gossip magazines ; another, Johnny Crawford of The Rifleman, had five Top-40 hits.
In 1970 he starred as one of the young doctors in the CBS prime-time series The Interns, in a cast led by Broderick Crawford.
Along with Brown County, it is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time.

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The main stream of the river is formed at in Frederic Township in Crawford County by the confluence of Kolke and Bradford Creeks, which both rise in Otsego County.
In addition to this, Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God presents a brief overview of the founding of the town through the eyes of Janie Crawford, the main character of the novel, and some suggest a cipher for Hurston herself.
The main character, an African American woman in her early forties named Janie Crawford, tells the story of her life and journey via an extended flashback to her best friend, Pheoby, so that Pheoby can tell Janie's story to the nosy community on her behalf.
Before 1949, there were five main department stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai: In Hong Kong: Lane Crawford-In 1850 founded by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened in Des Voeux Road Hong Kong ; Wing On-In 1907 Kwok's family returned to Hong Kong from Australia with accumulated savings and founded the Wing On Company ; Sincere-Founded by Ma Ying Piu in 1900 after returning from Australia and partnership with others to form the first Chinese department store in then British Hong Kong.
In 1979 Crawford Collets demolished the main buildings and replaced them with a modern factory but preserved the entrance gate and former chapel.
Judy Garland, Ed Sullivan, and Joan Crawford are three of the most famous interments in the main mausoleum.
CIT has a number of constituent colleges and facilities located off of its main campus, such as the CIT Cork School of Music, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, National Maritime College of Ireland and CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory.
The college is sited in its own campus in Sharman Crawford Street, approximately four miles from the main CIT campus in Bishopstown.
Though the titular everyman Funky Winkerbean was the ostensible main character, nerds Les Moore and Lisa Crawford became breakout characters and the primary focus of the strip.
Tamia's longtime collaborator, Shep Crawford, who has also produced Cox's " Nobody's Supposed to Be Here " and Price's " As We Lay " will be the main collaborator for the project.
The city's main retail and business area first grew here, at the intersection of Princes and Rattray Streets, but has slowly moved north to George Street, although there has been some recent retail development in Crawford and Cumberland Streets, south and east of the Exchange.
Thompson focused on the depth range of algae, his main collection of which is in the Ulster Museum herbarium and consists of five large albums containing specimens collected by Thompson himself, William Henry Harvey, Moon, D. Landsborough, Robert Ball, Thomas Coulter, George Crawford Hyndman, William McCalla and many others.
The unglamorous role for Crawford, and bold story ( religious hypocrisy being its main theme ), caught Depression-era audiences off-guard.
Paul Spoonley quotes Crawford as saying that the Church of Odin was exclusively for whites, and specifically whites " of non-Jewish descent " and that " the main Odinic law requires loyalty to race ".
" In Europe, the London Review of Books categorizes the main protagonist of the novel, Kate Blackwell as being " presented as some kind of role model, but it is the sort of role made popular in olden times by Joan Crawford ".

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