The seat was made available by the retirement of Republican Jesse Helms.

As well as being declared the greatest player of the first half of the century by The Associated Press, Mikan was on the Helms Athletic Foundation all-time All-American team, chosen in a 1952 poll, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959, made the 25th and 35th NBA Anniversary Teams of 1970 and 1980 and was elected one of the NBA 50 Greatest Players in 1996.

In view of her contributions to women's track and field, she was made a posthumous member of the USATF Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Helms made his WWF debut on the July 5, 2001 episode of SmackDown !, using the name " Hollywood " Gregory Helms.

Helms continued to defend his belt during pay-per-views, but he made more regular appearances on SmackDown! s sister show, Velocity.

On October 23, 2010, Helms made his debut for Jersey All Pro Wrestling, where he, under his Hurricane gimmick, defeated Azrieal.

On January 29, 23 Helms made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla ( PWG ), during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, in a match, where he was defeated by Joey Ryan.

Helms, a gifted organizer, made those sessions popular and started charging an admission fee of 50 cents.

Later Helms would get them the appearance that made them famous, the Monterey Pop Festival where Albert Grossman spotted Joplin and offered her a contract.

With Joplin as the lead singer, Helms became the group's manager and introduced them on stage when they made their crucial appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a performance that marked Joplin's elevation to national prominence.

Bill Graham Presents shows evolved more into high-power, professional lineups of better-known headline bands that made him known as the can-do guy that he was, while Helms, although managing to produce top-flight bands, still showcased bands that tended to be hipper and local.

Cheap Seats was shot in New York City ( with segments filmed in Los Angeles ) and had made use of local comedians as guest stars in its sketches, including Ed Helms of The Daily Show, Michael Showalter of The State and Ian Roberts of The Upright Citizens Brigade.

In 1956, Helms made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed a recording contract with Decca Records.

Helms ' first single in 1957 titled " Fraulein " went to No. 1 on the country music chart and made it into the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Moultrie, Holmes and Helms made many appearances with former Drifting Cowboys bassist Herbert " Lum " York until York's death in 2004.

A documentary film about the political and personal parallels between the gay filmmaker and the notoriously anti-gay U. S. Senator Jesse Helms ( R-N. C .), Dear Jesse, made its cable television debut on HBO / Cinemax's " Reel Life " series and was nominated for an Emmy Award in the News / Documentary Writing category in 2000.

In the weeks leading up to his title defense, Mysterio defeated Cruiserweight Champion Gregory Helms in a Champion vs. Champion match but was defeated by Rob Van Dam at WWE vs. ECW Head to Head on June 7.

After being out of action for over a year after neck fusion surgery Helms returned to SmackDown in September 2008, referring to himself as Hurricane Helms, before moving to the ECW brand where he reverted to his Gregory Helms name, and became the backstage interviewer.

In mid-2009, he brought back The Hurricane character, and appeared as both Gregory Helms and The Hurricane on ECW.

After " ECW " was cancelled Helms was released by WWE on February 26, 2010.

On April 15, 2009, Helms was drafted to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.

On the August 11, 2009 episode of ECW, Helms was attacked by Paul Burchill after Helms denied being The Hurricane.

Soon after the WCW / ECW Invasion storyline, Anderson took up color commentary for a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match between Booker T and Buff Bagwell, WCW Cruiserweight Championship match with Billy Kidman and Gregory Helms as well as another WCW Championship match between Diamond Dallas Page and Booker T, which would be his only appearances as a commentator in WWE.

In the promotion, Helms allied himself with Marco Corleone, and in his debut for the promotion at the January 22 tapings, he defeated Corleone's rival and Lucha Libre USA Champion Lizmark, Jr. via disqualification.

Peterson and Leigh Stephens were together once again in Blue Cheer with drummer Prairie Prince at the Chet Helms Memorial Tribal Stomp in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on October 29, 2005, and their lively performance drew old rockers like Paul Kantner and others from backstage to observe.

By August, Burchill became embroiled in a rivalry with backstage interviewer Gregory Helms, who he accused of being masked wrestler The Hurricane ( who Helms also portrayed ).

During his time working for WWE, he wrestled such names as Hardcore Holly, Hurricane Helms, Rosey, Team Angle, Chris Masters, Mortis, The FBI, as well as participating in a number of backstage skits.

* The longest EVA as of 2007, was 8 hours and 56 minutes, performed by Susan J. Helms and James S. Voss on March 11, 2001.

In a note, Kirby states, " A very abbreviated list of twentieth-century writers on the NT who do not believe that the empty tomb is historically reliable: Marcus Borg, Günther Bornkamm, Gerald Boldock Bostock, Rudolf Bultmann, Peter Carnley, John Dominic Crossan, Stevan Davies, Maurice Goguel, Michael Goulder, Hans Grass, Charles Guignebert, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Randel Helms, Herman Hendrikx, Roy Hoover, Helmut Koester, Hans Küng, Alfred Loisy, Burton L. Mack, Willi Marxsen, Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Perrin, Robert M. Price, Marianne Sawicki, John Shelby Spong, Howard M. Teeple, and John T.

Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a " prelude ", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

An active Republican, Meredith served from 1989-1991 as a domestic adviser on the staff of United States Senator Jesse Helms.

The program was then authorized by JCS Chairman John Vessey, and sanctioned by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( SSCI ), with the sponsorship of Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Senator Goldwater ( R-AZ ).

The Moral Majority ’ s initial political actions were aimed at supporting Jesse Helms ’ proposed legislation on school prayer.

However, that status was suspended in 1994 after a campaign led by Jesse Helms focussing on NAMBLA's membership of ILGA.

Hackett is said to have " contributed liberally to the liquid refreshments on the christening of a new hotel, in order to secure the name which, before this, had been Helms ' Mills or Musconetcong ".

Helms was of English ancestry on both sides.

In 1952, Helms worked on the presidential campaign of Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell.

Helms had determined on a career in print media, and wanted eventually to become a publisher and run a metropolitan daily newspaper.

Following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Helms volunteered for the United States Navy, receiving officer training at Harvard.

After a period spent writing up fruitless " secret plans ", Helms was pulled away and put into a small group under Ferdinand Meyers " responsible for coordinating intelligence collection on Germany ".

At the time of Helms ' arrival in London, talk about the recent German attack on the Ardennes front conceded that it had surprised everyone including the OSS.

On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of John Ehrlichman's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: The Man and the Machine.

The next year, he portrayed a fictional Director of Central Intelligence ( based on Richard Helms ) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of John Ehrlichman's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the Watergate scandal.

" He later changed his opinions dramatically — " I've changed and he hasn't " — and condemned Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol.

In response, Stone cut out all scenes with Helms from the theatrical print and claimed that he did for " artistic reasons " only to reinstate this footage on the home video release.

Much of the added time consists of two scenes: one in which Nixon meets with Central Intelligence Agency director Richard Helms ( played by Sam Waterston ) and another on Tricia Nixon's wedding day, where J. Edgar Hoover persuades Nixon to install the taping system in the Oval Office.