Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage.

Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900, and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school.

On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.

In the early 1970s, largely at the behest of companion Erin Fleming, Groucho had a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A & M Records.

Controversy surrounded the companionship he had developed with Erin Fleming, which consequently raised disputes over his estate.

Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.

Fleming had been an auto mechanic and early aviator when his old friend Marshall Neilan recommended him to film director Allan Dwan as a good mechanic.

Fleming went on to impress Dwan by quickly fixing both his car and a faulty film camera and by 1916 had worked his way up to the position of cinematographer.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

Fleming's inspiration for the Dr. No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, the books about who Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.

As he had done in his previous novels, Fleming borrowed names from his friends and associates to use in his book ; Ivar Bryce's housekeeper, May Maxwell, became Bond's Scottish " treasure " May.

As with his previous four novels, Fleming himself came up with the concept of the front cover design ; as he had considered Honeychile Rider to have a Venus-like quality when introduced in the book, he wanted this echoed in the cover, which he commissioned to show her on a Venus elegans shell ; the final artwork was undertaken by Pat Marriott.

Fleming accepted the criticism from the paper concerning the exclusivity of Bond's objects, such as cigarettes and food, but defended it on the basis that " I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ".

By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming ( 1925 – 1999 ), who became a noted cellist.

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

He was drawn to the paper, partly because he harboured political aspirations ( the paper ’ s perk as a useful stepping stone to Westminster was, by now, well established ), but also because his father had been a friend of Peter Fleming, its well known columnist.

For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole a memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech ( originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for " cleaning.

Standard time, as originally proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879, divided the world into twenty-four time zones, each one covering 15 degrees of longitude.

* The James Bond series of spy fiction originally created by Ian Fleming

When those plans did not come to fruition, Fleming adapted the ideas to form the basis of the novel, which he originally titled The Wound Man.

Apart from terminology, this differs from Fleming ( 1976 ) in including the Mao languages, whose affiliation had originally been controversial, and in abolishing the " Gimojan " group.

from the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming ) originally introduced in the DuckTales episode " Double-O-Duck " as the " Foreign Organization for World Larceny.

Flemington was incorporated in 1922 by Circuit Court, and named for James Fleming, an early settler in the area originally from Hampshire County.

Alexander Fleming House ( 1959 ), originally a group of government office blocks and now a residential complex known as Metro Central Heights, is a prime example of the work of the Hungarian modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger.

A major production was that of Robert Carsen, staged originally for the Opera de Paris in 1999 and repeated at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which featured Renée Fleming in the title role.

It was originally known as Alexander Fleming House, a multi-storey office complex designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger and constructed in the early 1960s for Arnold Lee of Imry Properties.

They were formed in 1997, originally consisting of Damian Alexander ( vocals ), Marcus Powell ( guitar, backing vocals ), Shelton Woolright ( drums ), Gareth Fleming ( bass ) and Karl Vilisini, also known as DJ Dlay ( turntables, keyboards ).

He often used the aphorism ( perhaps originally coined by Ian Fleming in Diamonds are Forever ) " Nothing propinks like propinquity ," later dubbed the Ball Rule of Power.

Fleming was originally not scheduled to make her Met debut until the next season, but ended up making it earlier than expected by stepping in to replace Felicity Lott who had become ill. She returned to the Met later that year to sing Rosina in the world premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.

The story was originally entitled Man's Work and was set in Vermont, where Fleming had spent a number of summers at his friend Ivar Bryce's Black Hollow Farm, which became the model for von Hammerstein's hideaway, Echo Lake.

It could also have encouraged the Canadian Pacific Railway to seek a more northerly route for its transcontinental railway that went through the well-mapped and partially settled valley of the North Saskatchewan River, touching on Prince Albert, Battleford and Edmonton, and through the Yellowhead Pass, as originally proposed by Sandford Fleming.

They were originally formed in 1998 by Daniel Wylie and Stephen Fleming, and later they were joined by Mark Brown and James Clifford.

The village where the manor house was built in the 17th century was originally called Andersta but the name was changed when came into the ownership of Henrik Fleming.

Fleming originally titled " The Living Daylights " as " Trigger Finger ", although when it first appeared, in the The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962, it was under the title of " Berlin Escape ".

Bell has also provided backing vocals on a number of other artists ' recordings, notably Tom Parker's neo-classical arrangements, and in 1975 performed with Sunny and Sue ( originally members of Brotherhood of Man ) at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, providing backing vocals for the German entry " Ein Lied Kann Eine Brücke Sein ", performed by Joy Fleming.

Not long after his arrival in Reval, Fleming began his courtship of Elsabe Niehus, the daughter of Heinrich Niehus, a merchant originally from Hamburg.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( where Fleming was based ) acquired the rights to the 1931 film, originally released by Paramount Pictures, in order to keep the earlier film out of circulation.

This area was originally known Liberty Plains but was called Flemington by John Fleming, who was granted here in 1806.

This area was originally known Liberty Plains but was called Flemington by John Fleming, who was granted here in 1806.