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Fiske and 1928
William Meade Lindsley " Billy " Fiske III ( 4 June 1911 – 17 August 1940 ) was the 1928 and 1932 Olympic champion bobsled driver and, following Jimmy Davies, was one of the first American pilots killed in action in World War II.
Fiske attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History.
As driver of the first five-man U. S. Bobsled team to win the Olympics, Fiske became the youngest gold medalist in any winter sport ( until eclipsed by Toni Nieminen in 1992 ), aged just 16 years at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
" ( March 18, 1928 ), Harrison Fiske was 12 years old when he first set eyes on the future Mrs. Fiske — she was but 8, performing in a Shakespearean role.

Fiske and Cornell
Cornell is interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus, along with Daniel Willard Fiske and Jennie McGraw.
In Berlin in 1880, she married Daniel Willard Fiske, Cornell University's first librarian and renowned scholar.
* Supreme Court opinion in Cornell v. Fiske ( 1890 )

Fiske and University
Along with that Wittenberg University has been named one of only 23 institutions in the nation by the Fiske Guide to Colleges for " Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Drama.
The University of Kansas is repeatedly listed as one of the best buys in higher education by such publications as Kiplinger s, the Fiske Guide to Colleges, Kaplan s and the Princeton Review.
The Fiske Guide to Colleges ranked UNCA among top 20 Best Buys in public liberal arts education, saying, " The University of North Carolina at Asheville offers all the perks that are generally associated with pricier private institutions: rigorous academics, small classes and a beautiful setting.
The discovery of phosphocreatine was reported by Grace and Philip Eggleton of the University of Cambridge and separately by Cyrus Fiske and Yellapragada Subbarow of the Harvard Medical School in 1927.
For the sixth year, Adelphi University has been named a “ Best Buy ” in higher education by the Fiske Guide to Colleges.
Adelphi University has been ranked as a " Best Buy " college by the Fiske Guide to Colleges for the last four years for its quality education offered at a comparatively affordable price.
Blumenthal was also selected for a Fiske Fellowship that allowed him to study at Cambridge University, Cambridge England for one year after graduation from Harvard College.
When Fiske realized that the University had failed to inform him of this restriction, he launched a legal assault to reacquire the money, known as The Great Will Case.
Jennie McGraw, who had inherited his partner John's fortune in 1877, and died of tuberculosis shortly after marrying University Librarian Daniel Willard Fiske.
* Mrs Fiske University of Washington Sayre Collection
* George Bernard Shaw archives at the University of Texas, including communication between Fiske and Shaw.
* George Bernard Shaw archives at the University of Texas, including communication between Fiske and Shaw.

Fiske and had
At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
By the end of 1941, Roosevelt had appointed seven justices and elevated Harlan Fiske Stone to Chief Justice.
Investigations by a coroner and Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske, in a 58-page report released in 1994, also concluded that Foster had committed suicide.
When the tour concluded in Boston in June, she had out-drawn two of the most prominent actresses of her day, Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Minnie Maddern Fiske.
President Truman had nominated his old friend after Harlan Fiske Stone died.
Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strongly urged Hoover to name Cardozo, even offering to resign to make room for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else ( Stone had in fact suggested to Calvin Coolidge that he should nominate Cardozo rather than himself back in 1925 ).
Fiske became popular among his colleagues in the Labour Group and in 1960 he was elected as Chief Whip, deposing Freda Corbet who had held the job for 12 years and was a close ally of the Labour leader Isaac Hayward.
The 1967 elections took place when the Labour Government of Harold Wilson had become unpopular and it was accepted that Fiske would find it difficult to hold on.
It was recorded for the programme by Eileen Browne and Roger Fiske, though Julia Lang in an Anglia Television interview in the 1990s said that during her tenure, when she finished reading the story she had to get up ( noiselessly ), rush across to the piano in the studio and play the Berceuse live.
Although he landed his aircraft safely back at Tangmere, Fiske had to be extracted from the aircraft by ambulance attendants.
Kalich acted in a number of plays for Fiske, both original works and adaptations of roles that she had created in Yiddish.
She had no children with either White or Fiske.
He served on the Special Division of the Court which appointed Kenneth Starr under the renewed Independent Counsel statute, replacing Robert B. Fiske, who had been appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno special prosecutor to investigate the allegations against President Bill Clinton with respect to the Whitewater Affair.
Fiske also wrote for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury 48 ( December 1939 ), pp. 403 – 7, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, had written an article praised by critic Colin Wilson, among others, " Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake ", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into modern English.
The cartoonists were fond of Barbara Hall Fiske and regretted that she had given up her cartooning work in the 1940s.
It has had its own private K-12 school based on the principles of the Fiske family and of Summerhill School in England, and ran Free The Kids!

Fiske and worked
Fiske then worked at the London office of Dillon, Reed & Co, the New York bankers.
She worked with Minnie Maddern Fiske for months to correct her speech, but was never completely successful.

Fiske and for
Other productions in the United States include one in 1902 starring Minnie Maddern Fiske and a 1997 production starring Janet McTeer ( in a critically acclaimed performance ) at the Belasco Theater, which received three Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.
* 1897: A production by Lorimer Stoddard proved a great Broadway triumph for actress Minnie Maddern Fiske, was revived in 1902, and subsequently made into a motion picture by Adolph Zukor in 1913, starring Mrs. Fiske, of which no copies remain.
* William Fiske, goalkeeper for Blackpool
Fiske, as aide for operations in 1913 – 15 to Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposed a radical reorganization of the Navy to make it a war-fighting instrument.
" For more than a decade, The Fiske Guide to Colleges has awarded KU a four-star rating for academics, social life, and overall quality of university life.
In 2008, the Fiske Guide to Colleges praised the KU J-School for its strength.
Nineteenth-century enthusiasm for brain size as a simple measure of human performance, championed by scientists including Darwin's cousin Francis Galton and the French neurologist Paul Broca, led Fiske to believe in the racial superiority of the " Anglo-Saxon race ".
In books such as Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy ( ISBN 0-384-15780-7 ), Fiske aimed to show that " in reality there has never been any conflict between religion and science, nor is any reconciliation called for where harmony has always existed.
In " Power Plays, Power Works " John Fiske suggests that closeted homosexuality may be more common in American communities suffering from widespread poverty, in which members reportedly depend heavily on traditional family networks ( and often religious institutions ) for financial and emotional support.
Aniko Bodroghkozy, “ Media Studies for the Hell of It: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske ,” Flow, 27 May.
Likewise, evidence for the asymmetry was considered to be " plentiful ” ( Fiske & Taylor, 1991, p. 73 ) and “ pervasive ” ( Aronson, 2002, p. 168 ).
Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in effecting the survival of the fittest, a thesis previously maintained by Professor John Fiske.
On the Court, Roberts was a swing vote between those, led by Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone, as well as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who would allow a broader interpretation of the Commerce Clause to allow Congress to pass New Deal legislation that would provide for a more active federal role in the national economy, and the Four Horsemen ( Justices James Clark McReynolds, Pierce Butler, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter ) who favored a narrower interpretation of the Commerce Clause and believed that the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protected a strong " liberty of contract.
In the Marvel 1602 universe ( Earth-311 ), Bull's Eye appears as an assassin / first mate for the villainous Captain Wilson Fiske ( The King's Pin ).
* The Fiske Guide to Colleges assigns Ursinus three bells for academics, three bells for social life and three bells for quality of life.

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