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Howard, who had been sitting against the wall, said he needed more fresh air, and took the spot on the edge of the porch where Bobby Joe had been sitting.
Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.
Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne ’ s play Mr Pim Passes By in London.
The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".
For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s.
The reasons behind the invention of the Hyborian Age were perhaps commercial: Howard had an intense love for history and historical dramas ; however, at the same time, he recognized the difficulties and the time-consuming research work needed in maintaining historical accuracy.
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
In addition, Conan speaks many languages, including advanced reading and writing abilities: in certain stories, he is able to recognize, or even decipher, certain ancient or secret signs and writings ; for example, in " Jewels of Gwahlur " Howard states, " In his roaming about the world the giant adventurer had picked up a wide smattering of knowledge, particularly including the speaking and reading of many alien tongues.
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".
Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.
The Fiji Times reported on 14 September 2006 that Prime Ministers Qarase and Howard had discussed possible Australian assistance for the reform of Fiji's sugar industry, with Howard reported receptive to giving aid.
One goth, Jim Howard, had to be rushed to the hospital.
Howard of the Connecticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally-owned Gatling gun to Saskatchewan in Canada in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against the Métis during Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion.
Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.
Bogart never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 he named his only daughter " Leslie Howard " after Howard, who had died in World War II under mysterious circumstances.
" After the public's response to Bacall's debut performance in To Have and Have Not at the urging of director Howard Hawks production partner Charles K. Feldman, scenes were re-written to heighten the ' insolent ' quality that had intrigued critics and audiences in that film.
They had their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart on August 23, 1952, a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard.

Howard and wooden
On August 11, Howard Hughes showed the group his Culver City aircraft factory, then personally flew them to see the private-venture Hughes D-2, an experimental twin-engine, wooden aircraft then being test-flown at a Hughes facility at Harper Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.
* Howard Boats manufacturer of the Barnstable catboat, a fiberglass version of the traditional wooden Beetle catboat.
Richard William Howard Vyse, who first visited Egypt in 1835, discovered in the upper antechamber the remains of a wooden anthropoid coffin inscribed with Menkaure's name and containing human bones.

Howard and statue
* In 1904, the city commissioned an equestrian statue of Howard by the eminent French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and installed it at Washington Square, Baltimore.
In 1910, then-President William Howard Taft and the widowed Elizabeth Bacon unveiled an equestrian statue of Custer that now rests at the corner of Elm Street and Monroe Street in the heart of downtown Monroe.
In 1910, President William Howard Taft and the widowed Elizabeth Bacon unveiled an equestrian statue of Custer ( George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument ) that now rests at the corner of Elm Street and Monroe Street.
Howard became the first civilian to be honoured with a statue in St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Cemetery Hill, with a statue of Oliver O. Howard | General Howard at the top.
In Hinduism the God Hanuman is benign and in the Ramayana he and his monkey people are pivotal for Rama to reach Sri Lanka and slay Ravana, probably Howard decided to depict him as a demon after having read Rudyard Kipling's The Mark of the Beast, a short story where a drunken British officer in India is struck by a curse after having defaced a Hanuman statue with his cigar.

Howard and head
Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.
Thomas C. Howard was head designer, architect and engineer for both companies.
Mason and Howard, in order to give the film more of an American feel, came up with the idea of inserting newly-shot footage of newscaster Eric Carter, a UN reporter who spends much of the time commenting on the action from the UN Headquarters via an International Communication Satellite ( ICS ) broadcast, and Arnold Johnson, the head of the Museum of Natural History in New York, who tries to explain Godzilla's origin and his and Kong's motivations.
* March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U. S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of " America is the Black man's battleground!
Burgess was shot in the head and Howard in the arm and chest.
Howard, who had been Home Secretary until thirteen days earlier, had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of Her Majesty's Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott.
This time, Howard laughed it off, saying that he had not threatened to overrule the head of the Prison Service.
A 2008 book by Spanish writer José Rey Ximena claims that Howard was on a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade Francisco Franco, Spain's authoritarian dictator and head of state, from joining the Axis powers.
Constantino Paul " Big Paul " Castellano ( pronounced cass-TAY-lah-noh ) ( June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985 ), also known as " The Howard Hughes of the Mob " and " Big Paulie " ( or " PC " to his family ), succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, then the nation's largest Cosa Nostra family.
Wyler also argued with Warner Bros. head Jack Warner over the casting of British actor James Stephenson as attorney Howard Joyce.
Tension between Cave and Howard soon came to a head, but it was Harvey who first left the group – their final tour saw Des Hefner on drums.
Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, appears as a bit of a drunk, while Michael Howard, the former head of the Conservative Party, was shown as a vampire ( a reference to the " something of the night about him " comment by Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe ).
Another casualty of the controversy was head of ABC Radio Sue Howard, who was dismissed in 2009, partly for the perception that the controversy was mishandled.
Paxman pressed Michael Howard, Home Secretary, about a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of the Prison Service, about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison.
This time, Howard laughed it off, saying that he had not threatened to overrule the head of the Prison Service.
Danny Ford, Howard Schnellenberger, and Gene Stallings all won national championships as head coaches for NCAA programs while Joey Jones, Mike Riley, and David Cutcliffe are active head coaches in the NCAA.
The result was a disastrous 3 – 12 – 1 season during which the Giants seriously considered bringing in University of Miami head coach Howard Schnellenberger to replace Parcells.
It was announced on 28 December 2006 that the head coach Pat Howard would leave the club at the end of the season, to return to his native Australia.
Turnbull was in charge of this office until he was elevated by Prime Minister John Howard to head the Environment and Water Resources portfolio in January 2007.
Shortly after the Convention, Lewis called together Charles Howard, President of the International Typographical Union, Sidney Hillman, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, David Dubinsky, President of the ILGWU, Thomas McMahon, head of the United Textile Workers, John Sheridan of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, Harvey Fremming from the Oil Workers Union and Max Zaritsky of the Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers to discuss the formation of a new group within the AFL to carry on the fight for industrial organizing.
He was also a castmember and impressionist on The Howard Stern Show during the 1990s, where he gained considerable fame with his impersonations of Three Stooges middleman Larry Fine, late Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott and Stern's head writer Jackie Martling.
Scottish Television was founded by Canadian businessman Roy Thomson ( later Lord Thomson ) in association with the Theatre Royal's owners Howard & Wyndham Ltd. Thomson invited Canadian television producer Rai Purdy to become the station's first head of programming.

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