" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Wood himself played the eponymous character, but under the pseudonym " Daniel Davis ".

Hewitt played only Davis Cup matches for the remainder of the year, recording five-set wins over Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero in the semifinals and final respectively, as Australia went on to win the Davis Cup.

Though Davis denies it in his autobiography, it is also likely that the environment in which he was living played a role.

A few critics go as far as to call Walkin the album that created hard bop, but the point is debatable, given the number of musicians who were working along similar lines at the same time ( and of course many of them recorded or played with Davis ).

Davis played some gigs at the Cafe Bohemia with a short-lived formation that included Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Taylor, and then traveled to France, where he recorded the score to Louis Malle's film Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud.

Davis, however, had neglected to inform current pianist Kelly of Evans ' role in the recordings ; Kelly subsequently played only on the track " Freddie Freeloader " and was not present at the April dates for the album.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

The quintet played essentially the same repertoire of bebop tunes and standards that earlier Davis bands had played, but they tackled them with increasing structural and rhythmic freedom and, in the case of the up-tempo material, breakneck speed.

It also played a central role in the development of the musical style later referred to as Piedmont blues ; indeed, much of the music played by such artists of the genre as Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker, could be referred to as " ragtime guitar.

Only in the final sets of matches at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup are tie-breaks not played.

Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

She was replaced during most of her season seven maternity leave by Mimi Davis, played by Barbara Anderson, who had just come from the show Ironside.

A number of women have played male roles in King Lear ; most commonly the Fool, who has been played ( among others ) by Judy Davis and Emma Thompson but also, significantly, Lear himself, played by Marianne Hoppe in 1990 and by Kathryn Hunter in 1996-7.

Davis often played unlikable characters, such as Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes ( film ) | The Little Foxes ( 1941 ).

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

Davis otherwise spends most of his time managing the business and merchandising of Garfield.

Davis was plagued with poor health for most of his life.

In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.

In June 1862, in his most successful move, Davis assigned General Robert E. Lee to replace the wounded Joseph E. Johnston in command of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main Confederate Army in the Eastern Theater.

Apart from two month-long trips across the country where he met a few hundred people, Davis stayed in Richmond where few people saw him ; newspapers had limited circulation and most Confederates had little favorable information about him.

Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.

For Davis, his departure from Parker's group marked the beginning of a period in which he worked mainly as a freelancer and as a sideman in some of the most important combos on the New York jazz scene.

The liner notes of the first recordings of the Davis Quintet for Columbia Records call it one of the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

Garry Wills believes that Davis was underrated as an actress overall because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance.

In the days before the game, most sports writers were speculating over whether, if the Raiders won, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner Al Davis.

The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.

" Davis also criticized the popular-press and the literary-journal book reviews of The Mismeasure of Man as generally approbatory ; whereas, most scientific-journal book reviews were generally critical.

Prinze made several appearances on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, most notably at the roasts for Sammy Davis Jr. and Muhammad Ali.

The U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Davis v. Federal Election Commission, however, cast considerable doubt on the constitutionality of these provisions, and in 2011 the Supreme Court held that key provisions of the Arizona law – most notably its matching fund provisions – were unconstitutionalal in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Free Enterprise Club PAC v. Bennett.

) Davis and Hersh have suggested in their book The Mathematical Experience that most mathematicians act as though they are Platonists, even though, if pressed to defend the position carefully, they may retreat to formalism ( see below ).

Later Christian chroniclers and pre-20th century historians praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, characterizing the battle as the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe ; according to modern military historian Victor Davis Hanson, " most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers ( Tours ), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe.

Some film composers have made the time to orchestrate their own music ; most notably Howard Shore, Ennio Morricone, Don Davis ( who started as an orchestrator in the film business ).

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion.

In her next film, The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Davis co-starred with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, but Bogart, in his first important role, received most of the critics ' praise.