George Simon, exec director of Danny Thomas A. L. S. A. C. ( Aiding Leukemia Stricken American Children ) fund raising group, filled me in on the low-down phonies who are using phones to solicit funds for Danny's St. Jude hospital in Memphis.

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

* Dentith, Simon, George Eliot, Brighton, Harvester, 1986.

Among his earliest influences, Simon has cited Richard Ely ’ s economics textbook, Norman Angell ’ s The Great Illusion, and Henry George ’ s Progress and Poverty.

Simon emphasized the usefulness of the land tax, reflecting the early influence of Henry George on his economic thought.

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.

Eleven Nobel prizes have been awarded to Unitarians: Robert Millikan and John Bardeen ( twice ) in Physics ; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer, Linus Pauling, and Geoff Levermore for Peace ; George Wald and David H. Hubel in Medicine ; Linus Pauling in Chemistry, and Herbert A. Simon in Economics.

Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

There is anecdotal evidence, related to biographer George Wyatt by her former lady-in-waiting Anne Gainsford, that Anne brought to Henry's attention a heretical pamphlet, perhaps Tyndale's " The Obedience of a Christian Man " or one by Simon Fish called " Supplication for Beggars ," which cried out to monarchs to rein in the evil excesses of the Catholic Church.

Many of Church's doctoral students have led distinguished careers, including C. Anthony Anderson, Peter B. Andrews, George A. Barnard, William W. Boone, Martin Davis, Alfred L. Foster, Leon Henkin, John G. Kemeny, Stephen C. Kleene, Simon B. Kochen, Maurice L ' Abbé, Isaac Malitz, Gary R. Mar, Michael O. Rabin, Nicholas Rescher, Hartley Rogers, Jr., J. Barkley Rosser, Dana Scott, Raymond Smullyan, and Alan Turing.

George A. Miller presented his " The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two " paper while Noam Chomsky and Newell & Simon presented their findings on computer science.

Simon also appeared alongside George Harrison as musical guest on the Thanksgiving Day episode of SNL ( November 20, 1976 ).

* 1960 — Robert B. Leighton, Robert Noyes, and George Simon discover solar five-minute oscillations by observing the Doppler shifts of solar dark lines

* George T. Simon, The Big Bands, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1967, Library of Congress no.

George T. Simon discovered a saxophonist named Wilbur Schwartz for Glenn Miller.

" In an interview with George T. Simon in 1948, Sinatra lamented the inferior quality of music he was recording in the late forties and in comparison with " those great Glenn Miller things " from eight years earlier.

* George T. Simon 1912 – 2001.

George Simon wrote the liner notes for eleven Miller reissues, among them: Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, 1955, Glenn Miller On The Air, 1963, and Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer, 1974.

Portrait of Simon George by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Perkins's last album, Go Cat Go !, was released during 1996, and featured new collaborations with many of the above artists, as well as George Harrison, Paul Simon, John Fogerty, Tom Petty, and Bono.

As of 2009, notable residents living in or close to Wymondham include / have included George Szirtes, poet ; Oliver Winterbottom, car designer ; Simon Beaufoy, writer of the films ' The Full Monty ' and ' Slumdog Millionaire '; Bill Bryson, humorist, author and travel writer ; Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness ; and the late Edwin Gooch, MP and President of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history ( at least in terms of surviving oeuvre ) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time — he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally.

George Fox knew people who were " professors " ( followers of the standard religion ), but by the age of nineteen he had begun to look down on their behaviour, in particular their drinking of alcohol.

Madison was crucial in persuading George Washington to attend the convention, since he knew how important the president would be to the adoption of a constitution.

Before receiving the formal nod, Harding was summoned by George Harvey, told he was considered to be the consensus nominee, and asked if he knew, " before God ", whether there was anything in his life which would be an impediment.

Edward Bromhead, who knew John Boole through the Institution, helped George Boole with mathematics books ; and he was given the calculus text of Sylvestre François Lacroix by Rev.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

Johnson steered the projects towards contractors that he personally knew, such as the Brown Brothers, Herman and George, who would finance much of Johnson's future career.

Scott portrayed George S. Patton in the 1970 film Patton and researched extensively for the role, studying films of the general and talking to those who knew him.

Regarding whether Mr. Bush knew in advance about the losses, the SEC investigators found: " The evidence establishes that George W. Bush was not aware of the majority of the items that comprised the loss Harken announced on August 20.

" and Garrick quotes George Lyttelton as complimenting him by saying, " He told me he never knew what acting was till I appeared.

Marshall, who knew both Bradley and George Patton, and had interviewed officers and men under their commands.

Such critics include: Herald-News reporter Cal Deal ; Larry Elder ; Thomas Clough ; Barbara Burns, the daughter of victim Hazel Tanis ; George Kimball of The Irish Times ; Milan Simonich of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ; Lona Manning ; The New York Times reporter Robert Lipsyte ; Paul Mulshine of The Newark Star-Ledger ; and Jack Newfield of the New York Post, who stated, " I knew Rubin Carter, attended his fights, covered his retrial and I didn't see much reality on the screen.

He was almost the only Englishman of his time who knew German ( which allowed him to talk with George I, who spoke no English ).

He resigned both his teaching position and his commission in the Cadet Corps and travelled up to Sydney to enlist as a private in the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) because it was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Braund, whom Morshead knew well from his time in Armidale.

Law knew that this would push the Conservative back bench over the edge, and met with David Lloyd George on 17 May to discuss Fisher's resignation.

George Washington, then just 23, knew the territory and served as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General Braddock.

As soon as Riall knew the Americans were advancing, he ordered his troops to fall back to Fort George and ordered another column under Colonel Hercules Scott to move from St. David's to Queenston to cover his withdrawal, rather than advance to his support.

Hampton knew of the existence of the ford and, late on 25 October, he decided to send 1, 000 men of his first brigade ( including most, if not all, of his light infantry ) under Colonel Robert Purdy, to cross to the south bank of the Chateauguay, circle round the British position and outflank it by capturing the ford at dawn, while 1, 000 men of his second brigade under Brigadier General George Izard attacked from the front.

) As a realtor, George Babbitt knew well the virtues of his home city.

Editor George H. Scithers, who knew Piper socially, has stated that Piper wanted to spite the ex-wife he despised: by committing suicide, Piper voided his life insurance policy, and prevented her from collecting.

Although he was offered more money by some major labels, Mares sold to George H. Buck's GHB / Jazzology Records, as Mares knew that Buck would make a commitment to keep all his material in print, whereas the major labels were mostly interested in the recordings by currently popular artists like Pete Fountain and Al Hirt, and were likely to let the rest of the Southland catalogue go out of print.

Lichfield was an Anglican, but knew Phillips as the latter was chaplain to his neighbour in Oxfordshire, the recusant George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury ( 1719 – 1787 ).

English erotic novels from this period include The Lustful Turk ( 1828 ); The Romance of Lust ( 1873 ); The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant ( 1876 ) by Rosa Coote ; The Mysteries of Verbena House, or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving ( 1882 ) by Etonensis, actually by George Augustus Sala and James Campbell Reddie ; The Autobiography of a Flea ( 1887 ); Venus in India ( 1889 ) by ' Captain Charles Devereaux '; Flossie, a Venus of Fifteen: By one who knew this Charming Goddess and worshipped at her shrine ( 1897 ) and My Lustful Adventures by ' Ramrod '.

A generation younger than Ibrăileanu, George Călinescu also noted the contrast between Mihail Kogălniceanu and his predecessors, as two sets of " Messianist " intellectuals — in this contrast, Heliade Rădulescu was " hazy and egotistic ", whereas Kogălniceanu and others had " a mission which they knew how to translate into positive terms ".