The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

George Smith, treasurer ; ;

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Also noted are the marriages of Elizabeth Browning, daughter of the George L. Brownings, to Austin C. Smith Jr. ; ;

Then, sculptor George Stanley ( who also did the Muse Fountain at the Hollywood Bowl ) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92. 5 percent tin and 7. 5 percent copper and then gold-plated it.

* George H. Smith, Atheism, the Case Against God, ISBN 0-87975-124-X

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

In his later youth, Smith made the acquaintance of the San Francisco poet George Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success.

* The Shadow of the Unattained: Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith

The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith.

The bullpen depth of Rich Bordi, George Frazier, Warren Brusstar and Dickie Noles did their job in getting the game to Smith or Stoddard.

As well as the guest vocalists from the singles, the album featured the fictional George Jetson and Mark E Smith.

George E. Smith and Willard Boyle, 2009

The charge-coupled device was invented in 1969 at AT & T Bell Labs by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith.

For Dunedin, George Smith Duncan further developed the Hallidie model, introducing the pull curve and the slot brake ; the former was a way to pull cars through a curve, since Dunedin's curves were too sharp to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot to stop the car.

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

* 1945 – George Smith Patton Jr., American military commander ( b. 1885 )

* George Smith, decipherer of the Cypriot syllabary

Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper.

In the latter part of that year, George Albert Smith, working in Brighton, made The Kiss in the Tunnel.

In 1900, continuity of action across successive shots was definitively established by George Albert Smith and James Williamson, who also worked in Brighton.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.

* 1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.

Blair's new company supplied European filmmaking pioneers, including Birt Acres, Robert Paul, George Albert Smith, Charles Urban, and the Lumiere Brothers.

Economists who studied with Hayek at the LSE in the 1930s and the 1940s include Arthur Lewis, Ronald Coase, John Kenneth Galbraith, Abba Lerner, Nicholas Kaldor, George Shackle, Thomas Balogh, Vera Smith, L. K. Jha, Arthur Seldon, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, and Oskar Lange.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton, Sereno E. Brett, and other senior tank leaders ; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented offensive tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors who considered the new approach too radical and preferred the tank continue to be used in a strictly supportive role for the infantry.

Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World War II.

He also had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly George S. Patton, by severely reprimanding him, when Patton earlier had slapped a subordinate and then when Patton gave a grossly errant speech.

* 1923 – George Patton IV, American general ( d. 2004 )

* George S. Patton, General, U. S. Army

He played General George S. Patton in An American Carol.

More than 5, 000 American soldiers, including U. S. Army General George S. Patton, are buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial near the capital of Luxembourg City, and there are monuments in many towns to American liberators.

Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).

Part of the " Fortitude " plan was intended to convince the Germans that a fictitious formation, First U. S. Army Group comprising 11 divisions ( 150, 000 men ) commanded by General George Patton, was stationed in the south and east of Britain.

Another film, Patton ( 1970 ), showed the actions of real life General George S. Patton, but intermixed action with commentary about how he waged war, in North Africa and the Sicilian campaign, showing good and bad sides to a command.

* General George S. Patton

* December 21 – General George S. Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9.

* December 21 – George S. Patton, U. S. general ( car accident ) ( b. 1885 )

* August 17 – WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton meets the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

** George Patton, American general ( d. 1945 )

* December 24 – George Patton IV, American general ( d. 2004 )

In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.