There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).

Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U. S. and British governments.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician ( his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track ), but took lessons from his mother.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

To quote Howard Zinn, " if I found that the FBI did not have any dossier on me, it would have been tremendously embarrassing and I wouldn't have been able to face my friends.

The New York Times did not review the film upon release, but film critic Howard Thompson gave it a positive review on a re-release at a children's matinee with the Bugs Bunny short, Napoleon Bunny-Part, in December 1970.

Howard Hawks, for his part, also did his best to boost her performance and her role, and found Bogart easy to direct.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin asserted that all Native Americans were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, so that the phrase " Indians not taxed " would be preferable, but Trumbull and Howard disputed this, arguing that the U. S. government did not have full jurisdiction over Native American tribes, which govern themselves and make treaties with the United States.

This original trio did one feature film entitled Soup to Nuts after which Shemp left the group to pursue a solo career, and was replaced by his brother Curly Howard.

( It should be noted that Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, was an actual historical person, who did develop the practice of dismantling bombs and was indeed killed in the manner described in the book ).

On CNN's " The Situation Room ," Washington Post media critic and CNN " Reliable Sources " host Howard Kurtz observed that " Senator McCain did not embrace the ' b ' word that this woman in the audience used.

Just over a month before signing with the Yankees in fall 1976, Jackson did analysis in the ABC booth with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell the night his future team won the American League pennant on a homer by Chris Chambliss.

During the 1970s, some slick and commercial blue-eyed soul acts like Philadelphia's Hall & Oates and Oakland's Tower of Power achieved mainstream success, as did a new generation of street-corner harmony or city-soul groups like The Delfonics and Howard University's Unifics.

In this last case, Kennett did not shy away from criticising the media, but also the decision of the Howard government to not actively oppose Hanson's agenda.

President William Howard Taft of the US then wrote publicly to the Diamond Match Company asking them to release the patent for the good of mankind, which they did in 1911.

Howard did not give a direct answer, instead repeatedly saying that he " did not overrule him ", and ignoring the " threaten " part of the question.

The 2002 Sight & Sound poll of film critics and directors did not place Rio Bravo in its top ten, but it did find it to be the best film directed by Howard Hawks, with 7 votes, surpassing seven of his other films, including His Girl Friday ( 5 votes ), Red River ( 4 ), To Have and Have Not ( 3 ), and Bringing Up Baby ( 2 ).

Dirksen's widow, Louella, died of cancer on July 16, 1979, as did the couple's daughter, Joy, the first wife of Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, on April 24, 1993.

Howard City did not prosper, so Asahel Hanchett sold his land holdings to Madison real estate brokers William F. Porter and Samuel Marshall in 1860.

The movie follows the exploits of a famous art forger, his biographer Clifford Irving, and the subsequent fake autobiography of Howard Hughes that Irving tries to publish.

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

Howard's visit to church on Christmas Eve sees him get in argument with Fraser over his refusal to publish his memoirs and another fight-this time with Eve's new love, Mitch, who Howard saw kissing another woman at the office Christmas party.

In 1945 Du Pont executive Jasper Crane along with Alfred Kohlberg started a capital campaign and obtained enough funding from J. Howard Pew, Inland Steel, Quaker Oaks, and Sears in 1950 to publish the first issue of The Freeman, a magazine that is still published by FEE today.

In addition to Milwaukee artists like himself, Mitchell, Bruce Walthers, Don Glassford, and Wendel Pugh, Kitchen began to publish works by such cartoonists as Howard Cruse, Trina Robbins and S. Clay Wilson, and he soon expanded his operations, launching Krupp Comic Works, a parent organization into which he placed ownership of Kitchen Sink Press and through which he also launched such diverse ventures as a record company and a commercial art studio.

Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, March Book, with Grove Press.

Grant went on to publish several additional works by Howard, including a never-completed set of all the Conan stories.

Other contributors after World War II included Adrienne Rich ( the first woman to publish regularly in the magazine ), Howard Nemerov, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Tom Wolfe, James Atlas, and Sallie Bingham.

In 2000 the Rachmaninoff Estate authorized Boosey & Hawkes, with the expert assistance of Robert Threlfall and Leslie Howard, to publish the uncut 1926 manuscript version of the Fourth Concerto.

** Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes ' " autobiography ".

Gardner stated in her autobiography Ava: My Story, that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years.

In 1939 he moved to the United States to Howard University (" Negro Oxford ", as he called it in his autobiography ), where he was rapidly promoted twice, attaining full professorial rank.

For the movie Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an " authorized " autobiography of Howard Hughes that had been revealed to be a hoax.

In his autobiography, Liddy describes an " Ellsberg neutralization proposal " originating from Howard Hunt, which involved drugging Ellsberg with LSD, by dissolving it in his soup, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington in order to " have Ellsberg incoherent by the time he was to speak " and thus " make him appear a near burnt-out drug case " and " discredit him ".

In the prologue to her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed, Hanson cites the Howard government's adoption of her policies as an attempt to win back One Nation voters to the Liberal and National parties, stating " the very same policies I advocated back then ... are being advocated today by the federal government ".

Churchill himself can be blamed for the spread of the theory ; in his autobiography, he expresses sorrow that a mistake about his activities might have cost Howard his life.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

“ Dorothy and I went to see the New York production of Life With Father, starring Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney ,” Lillian wrote in her autobiography.

In his autobiography, General Howard expressed great frustration in regard to what had taken place without his knowledge, stating " the legislative action, however, was just what I desired, except that I would have preferred to close out my own Bureau and not have another do it for me in an unfriendly manner in my absence.

* Clifford Irving ( born 1930 ), U. S. author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes

In his autobiography Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, Howard expressed his support for the anti-gun cause and his desire to introduce restrictive gun laws long before he became Prime Minister.

Howard was working on his autobiography, tentatively titled I Stooged to Conquer when he died of lung cancer on May 4, 1975.

Moe's autobiography was released in 1977 as Moe Howard and the Three Stooges.

Howard published an autobiography, From Prison to Parliament, in 2003.

* Private Parts ( book ), a 1993 autobiography by radio personality Howard Stern

* Private Parts ( 1997 film ), a 1997 film based on Howard Stern's autobiography of the same name

In addition to Mr Nice, he compiled an anthology called The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories ( Vintage, 2001 ) and more recently a follow-on from his autobiography ; Señor Nice: Straight Life From Wales to South America.

Clifford Michael Irving ( born ) is an American investigative reporter and author of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for his hoax " autobiography " of reclusive and eccentric businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s.

The fraudulent autobiography was published in Santa Fe in a private edition in 1999, and went out of print, but, in March 2008, John Blake Publishing, a British company, issued Howard Hughes: The Autobiography.

In her autobiography, published in 1987, she listed 22 intimate friends, including Prince Aly Khan, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster, Howard Hughes, Robert Stack and Robert Taylor.

Scottish international forward Andy Gray reported in his autobiography that the Everton board were ready to offer Gray the job as manager in August 1997, but Bill Kenwright, then director, had wanted to appoint Howard Kendall as manager for a third time.

It is also included in the autobiography of soldier Howard E. Wasdin, SEAL Team Six.