During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called " the screwiest of the screwball comedies " by film critic Andrew Sarris.

In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called " Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman ", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS.

The ( initially hypothetical ) band was with Beahm ( then ' Bobby Pyn ,' and later Darby Crash ) on vocals, Ruthenberg ( then and later called Pat Smear ) on guitar, an early member named " Dinky " ( Diana Grant ) on bass, and Michelle Baer playing drums.

In 1856, Grant, in order to give his family a home, built a house he called " Hardscrabble ", and which he considered an achievement.

A mass meeting was called in Galena to initiate recruitment, and recognized as the sole military professional in the area, Grant was asked to lead the meeting and ensuing effort.

" Grant became a celebrity in the North, now called " Unconditional Surrender " Grant.

During the third day of the 13-day Cold Harbor battle, Grant led a costly fatal assault on Lee's trenches, and as news spread in the North, heavy criticism fell on Grant, who was called " the Butcher ", having lost 52, 788 casualties in 30 days since crossing the Rapidan.

With the Federal army having rebuilt the City Point Railroad, Grant was able to use mortars to attack Lee's entrenchments ; the most famous and largest mortar used during the Civil War, over 17, 000 pounds, was called the Dictator.

* July 25 – The U. S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army ( now called " 5-star general "); Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

When Lincoln called Grant east in the spring of 1864 to take command of all the Union armies, Grant appointed Sherman ( by then known to his soldiers as " Uncle Billy ") to succeed him as head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, which entailed command of Union troops in the Western Theater of the war.

John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet " may have been a groomsman ," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man " uncertain " while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned any such role in either of their memoirs.

Always immaculately turned out, he and Cary Grant were called " the best-dressed actor in American movies ".

The northern lobe of the island is called Grant Land.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Years later, in a show at the Pompidou Center called " Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences ", an aerial shot of Grant in the cornfield, with a " road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen ", was said to draw on Léon Spilliaert's " Le Paquebot ou L ' Estran ", which features " alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretch to the edge of the canvas.

Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong ( hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to " gong " acts off the air ) and Throut And Neck ( hosted by Rebecca Grant ) ( where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones ).

Lovitz ' character is called Fred by an orderly, but introduced himself as " Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States " to Bill.

In 1834, English land speculators John Charles Beales and James Grant attempted to establish an English-speaking colony called Dolores at the site.

The third man to serve as County Judge of Grant County was Cincinnatus Hiner “ Joaquin ” Miller ( 1837 – 1913 ), the noted poet, playwright, and western naturalist, called the " Poet of the Sierras " and the " Byron of the Rockies .”

General Grant reported after the battle, " To Sheridan's prompt movement, the Army of the Cumberland and the nation are indebted for the bulk of the capture of prisoners, artillery, and small arms that day.

Hugh Grant ’ s Chopin is a brilliant caricature of the Romantic ideal of the artist ; he gives the character an air of befuddled unworldliness, and punctuates his readings with delicately timed tubercular coughs.

* Grant Jansky ( David Hewlett ), a brilliant but disturbed derivatives trader.

But General Grant may have been self-victimized.

Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

The Outing Club also owns a chain of fourteen cabins and several shelters, extending from the Vermont hills, just across the river from the college, through Hanover to the College Grant -- 27,000 acres of wilderness 140 miles north up in the logging country.

The governor's move into the so-called `` blue law '' controversy came in the form of a letter to Miss Mary R. Grant, deputy city clerk of Central Falls.

Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

Miss Eileen Grant is spending several weeks visiting in Florida.

Last two to be added before the book went to press were the marriages of Meredith Jane Cooper, daughter of the Grant B. Coopers, to Robert Knox Worrell, and of Mary Alice Ghormley to Willard Pen Tudor.

Grant all this -- still, when modern Unitarianism and the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

" With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.

This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina.