" 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, 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 ).

The new year might see some house-cleaning, either genuine or token, depending upon developments, to give Davis an opportunity to combat some of these criticisms.

Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

The famous murder of William Davis by strike breakers, and the seizing of the New Waterford power plant by striking miners led to a major union sentiment that persists to this day in some circles.

As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.

Fans connected with Jon's " loneliness and desperation " and found his " crazy antics " humorous ; Jim Davis himself called Walsh's strips an " inspired thing to do " and said that " some of strips work better the originals ".

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

Davis believed that his company had paid too much for Infocom and initiated a lawsuit against them to recoup some of the cost, along with changing the way Infocom was run.

On June 15, 1865, Union soldiers seized Davis ' personal baggage, together with some of the Confederate government's records, from the agent.

Varina Davis, who had taken another boat to Brierfield, met him on the river, and he finally received some medical care.

The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library was established at Beauvoir Plantation, the white-columned Biloxi mansion that was Davis's final home, in 1998, after its use for some years as a Confederate Veterans Home.

After some time away from film, Cotten returned in the horror classic Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead.

Nancy Graves, Ronald Davis, Howard Hodgkin, Larry Poons, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz and Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged during the era of late modernism that spawned the heyday of the art of the late 1960s.

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 presence of white musicians in the group angered some black jazz players, many of whom were unemployed at the time, but Davis rebuffed their criticisms.

Most of Davis ' associates at the time, some of them perhaps in imitation of Charlie Parker, had drug addictions of their own ( among them, sax players Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon, trumpeters Fats Navarro and Freddie Webster, and drummer Art Blakey ).

Coltrane then departed to form his classic quartet, although he returned for some of the tracks on Davis ' 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come.

At one point in the video, Sinatra shared a kiss with Sammy Davis, Jr. She has stated " The kiss one of the first interracial kisses seen on television and it caused some controversy then, and now.

Al Davis had an enlarged photo of Joe Namath at Oakland's headquarters that depicted the quarterback sprawled out on the ground following a vicious hit from Raider defender Ben Davidson ; the photographed play was said to have broken the quarterback's jaw ( though Namath stated he had broken it on a tough piece of steak, and some claim it was Raiders defensive end Ike Lassiter who injured Namath ).

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

At some campuses, such as Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

Paul Davis, another modern historian who addresses both sides in the debate over whether or not this Battle truly determined the direction of history, as Watson claims, or merely was a relatively minor raid, as Cardini writes, says " whether Charles Martel saved Europe for Christianity is a matter of some debate.

Given the well-publicized hoopla, some sources still consider this as a nomination for Davis ; however, the Academy does not officially record this as a nomination.