1977 Dick Cullum, Minneapolis Tribune

Dick McAuliffe cracked the first of his two doubles against Lefty Don Rudolph to open the Bear's attack.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

On the 15th day of June, 1835, the first public land sales commenced with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. receiver of public moneys.

" Bloom did not respond to the offer, but his referral to Dick James's partner Leslie Conn led to Bowie's first personal management contract.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

His campaign manager in that first election was a college friend, Dick Posthumus.

Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, The Blossoms, The Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen, and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

* 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

The word " mimeograph " was first used by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed Edison's patents in 1887.

" Mary Tyler Moore recently stated on The Rachael Ray Show that she was actually 23 years old when she first starred on the Dick Van Dyke Show.

Author Philip K. Dick claimed to have coined this spelling in 1973, but its first recorded use appeared in a 1965 student publication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

Time Out of Joint is a novel by Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959.

Four Hundred Billion Stars, his first novel, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

The team was managed by Dick Williams, and it had an offense that featured the veterans Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, Alan Wiggins, plus the new, young star Tony Gwynn, who won his first of eight National League batting championships that year ( he won in 1987, 88, and 89 and from 1994 through 97 ).

The NBC telecast of the game, with play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg and color commentators Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese ( who was not in the booth with Enberg and Olsen ), garnered the third highest Nielsen rating of any Super Bowl to date, a 48. 3 but it ended up being the first Super Bowl to garner over 90 million viewers the highest to date up to that point.

Under Head Coach Dick Vermeil, Philadelphia advanced to their first ever Super Bowl in team history, and had not played in a league championship game since their 1960 NFL championship.

In 1978, Dick Randolph of Alaska became the first elected Libertarian state legislator.

For example, in the first half of 2001, the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.

His first coach, Dick Martin, remarked that he handled the puck better than the ten-year-olds.

* June 1 – The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs ( the first episode aired on October 3, 1961 ).

In the modern jumping technique first developed by Gus Lussi and his pupil Dick Button, skaters are taught to jump up first, and then assume a back spin position in the air to complete the rotation.

Privately made recordings of Nance's first concert date, at Fargo, North Dakota, on November 7, 1940 by Jack Towers and Dick Burris, are probably the most effective display of the band during this period.

Its editor / creator, Paul Dick, partially disabled himself, wanted to donate some of the zine's profits to a different disability charity each month.

In the early 1980s, DC Comics promoted Dick Giordano from his position as Batman group editor to editorial director for the company.

Some of the guests included Stan Weinstein ( editor of The Professional Tape Reader ), Peter Lynch ( manager of the Magellan funds at Fidelity Investments ), and Dick Fabian ( editor for " The Telephone Switch Newsletter ")

In a 1993 editorial meeting with Berger, Levitz, DC publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Berger was given the mandate to place these titles under an imprint that, as Berger described, would " do something different in comics and help the medium ' grow up '".

In 1951, when Al Fago began as an in-house editor, Charlton hired a staff of artists that included its future managing editor, Dick Giordano.

The novel was sold to Bantam Books, but after editor Mark Hurst suggested some possible revisions, Dick began contemplating a revision so radical as to constitute a new novel.

… The Paper Snake … is all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had given to the publisher, Dick Higgins, editor and publisher, which I mailed to him or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years.

Alumni in Hollywood include actors such as Anthony Heald, Robert Urich and William Fawcett ; comedian Dick Martin, comedian Jackie Martling, film director Sam Raimi, and Academy Award winning film editor of The Hurt Locker and the Spider-Man films, Bob Murawski, as well as screenwriter David Magee.

* Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer and magazine editor

Current editorial line-up for the magazine and website include: Jon Phillips, editorial director ; Robin Dick, art director ; Susie Ochs, senior editor ; Nic Vargus, associate editor ; and Florence Ion, online editor.

After Halpern's retirement in 1958, Dick Wilson became chief editor and publisher.

( Philip K. Dick called her a " master craftsman " and " the best editor I've ever worked with ".

( Dick ) Stolley, a former assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time, Inc. in 1963.

" With these ideas kicking around in his head, and when " it became clear that 3000 had sold reasonably well ," DC editor Dick Giordano then asked Bolland what project he wanted to work on next.

Richard Joseph " Dick " Giordano ( July 20, 1932 – March 27, 2010 ) was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics ' " Action Heroes " stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then – industry leader DC Comics.

During the last semester of his senior year, Busiek submitted some sample scripts to editor Dick Giordano at DC Comics.

His brother, Richard V. " Dick " Heermance, film editor and producer, also appeared as a contestant on To Tell the Truth as himself on October 21, 1958.

The character debuted in Peter Cannon ... Thunderbolt # 1 ( Jan. 1966 ), part of Charlton editor Dick Giordano's " Action Heroes " superhero line.

He is instruction editor of Tennis Magazine and has written an autobiography, My Aces, My Faults, with Dick Schaap, New York: HarperCollins ( 1996 ).

In 1966, editor Dick Giordano at Charlton Comics hired him as a comic book artist, where his first assignment was a humorous character called " Miss Bikini Luv " in " Go-Go Comics.