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She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.
" FDR's attempt to break the " two-term " tradition had also earned criticism from some conservative Democrats ( such as John Nance Garner ), and Willkie hoped to win their support.
Dave Brubeck, Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Shavers, Jimmy Smith, Joe Venuti, Ray Barretto, and Shelly Manne also have recorded the song.
Houston Astros manager Phil Garner also employed a relief ace model with his use of Brad Lidge in the 2004 postseason.
They also toured with the " Birdland Stars of 1955 ", whose lineup included Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Lester Young, George Shearing, and Stan Getz.
For the 1963 reprint, Garner also made several changes to the original text, but by the late 1960s, he would come to reject The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, charactising it as " a fairly bad book ".
" Praise also came from Nick Lake, the editorial director of HarperCollins Children's Books, who proclaimed that " Garner is, quite simply, one of the greatest and most influential writers this country has ever produced.
Joel Garner ( born 16 December 1952 ), also known as " Big Joel " or " Big Bird ", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early ' 80s West Indies cricket teams.
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad was also used in the filming of the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner when they stumble on to a charter train full of UNC-Chapel Hill fans headed for the NCAA Final Four.
An article in The State also named H. C. Garner as its founder, but not much information has been found about the man.
Garner Ted also spoke of greatly expanding the church's media ministry on the model of the Church of Christ, Scientist with its widely read Christian Science Monitor.
On June 11, the Hollywood Reporter announced that Jennifer Garner and Nick Nolte had also joined the cast.
His brother Jack also had an acting career and changed his surname to Garner, too.
Garner was closely advised by financial adviser Irving Leonard, who also advised Clint Eastwood in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Warner Brothers also dressed Robert Colbert, a Garner look-alike, in Bret Maverick's outfit and called the character Brent, but Brent Maverick did not catch on with viewers and Colbert made only two episodes toward the end of the season, leaving the rest of the series run to Kelly ( alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner ).
Part of the deal from the studio, which at that time was owned by The Coca-Cola Company, included an eight line sequence of Field and Garner saying the word " Coke ", and also having Coke signs appear prominently in the film.
In addition to a major recurring role during the last part of the run of TV series Chicago Hope, Garner also starred in a couple of short-lived series, the animated God, the Devil and Bob and First Monday, in which he played a Supreme Court justice.
In 2000, after an operation to replace both knees, Garner appeared with Clint Eastwood ( who had played a villain in the original Maverick series ) as astronauts in the movie Space Cowboys, also featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
During a group appearance by the cast on television's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Leno ran a brief clip from Garner and Eastwood's lengthy saloon fistfight during Eastwood's Maverick appearance in " Duel at Sundown " over forty years earlier ; Tommy Lee Jones and Eastwood also stage a brief bar brawl in Space Cowboys.
Garner also drove the pace car at the Indianapolis 500 race in 1975, 1977, and 1985 ( see: list of Indianapolis 500 pace cars ).
The film stars Sally Field ( also executive producer ), James Garner, Brian Kerwin, and Corey Haim.
Part of the deal from the studio, which at that time was owned by The Coca-Cola Company, included an eight line sequence of Field and Garner saying the word " Coke ," and also having Coke signs appear prominently in the film.
He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.

Garner and invited
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain ( James Garner ) is invited as the keynote speaker for the Bryn Mawr College graduation ceremonies of 1891.
In 2006, he was invited to be a coach in the 2006 All Star game by NL manager Phil Garner, who had played for both the A's and the Pirates during Tanner's tenure as manager.

Garner and yet
The church's Advisory Council of Elders, acting on a clause in church by-laws added in 1981, was to select a successor after his death, yet Armstrong reportedly worried about the ramifications if certain individuals, such as his son Garner Ted or evangelist Roderick Meredith were selected.
Optimist International President Bob Garner called the meeting “ yet another sterling example of ‘ Optimists Bringing Out the Best in Kids .’”
* In the community of Rio Frio about 10 mi ( 16 km ) ENE of Garner State Park is the largest Live oak ( Quercus virginiana ) tree yet identified in Texas.
Netherland was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review where Dwight Garner ( NYTBR senior editor ) called it " the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we ’ ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell ".

Garner and another
Garner and Rosen say that answers to the three basic questions " are not unrelated, and sometimes an answer to one will strongly suggest, or perhaps even entail, an answer to another.
Struan Rodger who played the dwarf Durathror, was in a radio production of another Garner story, Elidor, when he was thirteen years old.
The studio needed another Maverick to rotate as the series lead with James Garner.
In 1993, Garner played the lead in another well-received TV-movie, Barbarians at the Gate, and went on to reprise his role as Jim Rockford in eight The Rockford Files made-for-TV movies, beginning the following year.
Multi-talented running back Charlie Garner was the team's leading rusher with 962 yards and 7 touchdowns, while also leading all NFL running backs in receiving with 91 receptions for 941 yards and another 4 touchdowns.
She also played a teenage version of Jenny, another Jennifer Garner character, in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

Garner and actor
* 1928 – James Garner, American actor
** James Garner, American actor
According to director John Frankenheimer and actor James Garner in bonus interviews for the DVD of the film Grand Prix, McQueen was Frankenheimer's first choice for the lead role of American Formula One race car driver Pete Aron.
James Garner ( born James Scott Bumgarner ; April 7, 1928 ) is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media.
His two older brothers were actor Jack Garner ( 1926 – 2011 ) and Charles Bumgarner, a school administrator who died in 1984.
In 1954 a friend, Paul Gregory, whom Garner had met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a non-speaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, where he was able to study actor Henry Fonda night after night.
Garner as Bret Maverick and Jack Kelly ( actor ) | Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, 1959.
Field, and director Martin Ritt, had to fight the studio, Columbia Pictures, to have Garner cast, since he was regarded as a TV actor by then ( despite having co-starred in the box office hit Victor Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier ).
The Screen Actors Guild nominated Garner as best actor for " Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
Sally Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast Garner, who was viewed at that point as primarily a television actor despite having enjoyed a flourishing film career in the 1960s ( and more recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor / Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier ).
Field had worked very successfully with Newman in 1981's Absence of Malice, but Newman declined the project and Garner was the only other actor that Ritt and Field asked.
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, she was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, who played " Bart Maverick " alongside James Garner and Roger Moore in the television series Maverick.
Darby led the famous Darby's Rangers which evolved into the US Army Rangers and was also made famous as a major motion picture starring the American actor James Garner in the role of Darby.
Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a normally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.
Her only child, the actor, musician and writer Alice Garner, was born in 1969, and her marriage ended in 1971.
In 2004, the World Poker Tour created a Walk of Fame, inducting poker legends Doyle Brunson and Gus Hansen, as well as actor James Garner.
A successful child actor, Garner played her first film role in 1938 and won the Academy Juvenile Award for her work in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ( 1945 ).
In 2004, Marsden appeared as Noah's rival in The Notebook, apparently cast for his close resemblance to James Garner, who played the older Noah, while the actor portraying the younger Noah ( Ryan Gosling ) looked nothing like Garner.
He participated in a rally with sixty-five other competitors, including actor James Garner, in June 1969.
* James Garner, American actor
* Kelli Garner, American actor
From 1967 to 1972, the race was organized by the National Off-Road Racing Association ( NORRA ) and grew in popularity with ABC's " Wide World of Sports " sending Jim McKay to cover the 1968 event, and attracting new participants like the late Mickey Thompson, Indy 500 winner Parnelli Jones and movie actor James Garner.

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