To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

As his master J. Selby refused to release him from his apprenticeship obligation, Johnson left and went to Mooresville, Alabama.

In 1873 Johnson contracted cholera during an epidemic but recovered ; that year he lost about half his assets, when the First National Bank went under.

With Brad Johnson and Brooks Bollinger playing as backups, Dallas went 1 – 2 during a three-game stretch.

During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.

Johnson went on to lead the Lakers to five titles, and Bird went on to lead the Celtics to three.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

The election went to the Senate, where Johnson was elected 33-17.

nomination ; this was greeted by Rosecrans's characteristic indecision, so the nomination went to Andrew Johnson.

Some time between 9 and 10 a. m., John Kennedy called Pennsylvania governor David L. Lawrence, a Johnson backer, to request that Lawrence nominate Johnson for vice president if Johnson were to accept the role and then went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket at 10: 15 a. m. John Kennedy then returned to his suite to announce the Kennedy-Johnson ticket to his closest supporters and Northern political bosses.

She screen tested for the role of Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County which went to Meryl Streep.

He said Johnson forcefully told Eban he thought Israel had been unwise when it went to war and that he still thought they were unwise.

Now faced with considerable flanking fire, they also went down into the crater, and for the next few hours, Mahone's soldiers, along with those of Maj. Gen. Bushrod Johnson and artillery, slaughtered the IX Corps as it attempted to escape from the crater.

Burgee eased Johnson out of the firm in 1991, and when it subsequently went bankrupt, Burgee's design career was essentially over.

Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group base, which was assigned the high risk mission of bombing the Japanese airbase at Lae in New Guinea.

Johnson went too far when he proposed a bill that would crack down on the draft exemptions of shipyard workers if they were absent from work too often.

Stevenson went to court, but — with timely help from his friend Abe Fortas — Johnson prevailed.

Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Washington tagged with the ironic label " Landslide Lyndon ," which he often used deprecatingly to refer to himself.

At 10: 15 a. m. he went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket ; the two men were alone for about 30 minutes during which time Johnson said Kennedy would have trouble with those who were strongly against him.

After that, the convention went smoothly for Johnson without a searing battle over civil rights.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

* The World Atlas of Wine, resource on wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.

" Johnson frequently alienated his party through a strict adherence to his positions on slavery, the tariff and limited government spending.

Johnson supported the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, who thought it up to the people in each state to decide on the issue.

In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

" Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied initially only to states in rebellion ; Johnson rationalized that Tennessee in this regard was a part of the Union, and on that basis requested, and received, an exemption from the Proclamation.

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.

" I can't say how much it affected us, because we did make it to the AFC championship game ," said Johnson on the loss of fellow lineman Dean.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate and met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate ; he met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Johnson was not keen on the part because of the wordiness of the script ; Eileen Brennan recalled that he hated to talk, saying he would rather ride his horse a " thousand miles than say any of these goddamn words.

Some would say he was a benefactor who assisted in the development of Paintsville, and as a result, Johnson County.

Some sources also claim Berliner as a co-founder ; others say Berliner was never connected with the Victor company, though that may have been part of a ruse by Johnson to defeat the Zonophone lawsuits that had put Berliner Gramophone out of business ( in the U. S., but not in Canada, the UK, or Germany ) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business.

Reich lost his position at the New School in May 1941 after writing to its director, Alvin Johnson ( 1874 – 1971 ), to say he had saved several lives in secret experiments with the accumulator ; Johnson was aware of Reich's claims that he could cure cancer, and told him the New School was not an appropriate institution for the work.

According to Kevin C. Johnson, Post-Dispatch Pop Music Critic ," What stood out about Mecca's two-hour, 50-song set was her song choices, full of selections music fans don't necessarily hear every weekend at the clubs ( unlike, say, DJ Solange, who totally pandered to the crowd at the gig at Exo earlier this year ).

Some sources say the new recipe was based on his mother's homemade ice creams and desserts, while others say that the new recipe was from a local German immigrant, who either sold or gave Johnson the new ice cream recipe.

" The areas that seemed simplest and cleanest was to go back to those high-concept 1960s sitcoms and say let's do them for real ," Mr. Johnson said.

Johnson liked to say later that he got to Hollywood in a carload of horses.

" He goes on to say that he felt the statute in question was a reasonable restriction only on the manner in which Johnson's idea was expressed, leaving Johnson with, " a full panoply of other symbols and every conceivable form of verbal expression to express his deep disapproval of national policy.

" Dennis Johnson was often annoyed with Ryan and would go up to the press table and say, " Hey, Bob, keep it down.

While Samuel Johnson would say, half a century later, that no man but a blockhead ever wrote but for money, Pope's attack is not on those who get paid, but those who will write on cue for the highest bid.

Johnson revealed his contract is structured to give him final say over whether he is purchased by fifteen designated clubs.

Even though Johnson did not actually say that crime was only a " perception ," the phrase " perception of crime " was used widely by opponents and critics of the incumbent mayor.

As the crew of the Irving Johnson and the award winning program at the Los Angeles Maritime Institute like to say " We do not train youth for a life at sea ... we use the sea to educate youth for life ".

" In 2012, Johnson revealed in an interview that becoming famous because of the show was overwhelming and gave her nightmares, but she did say that she learned many things from being on the show and is grateful to the fans who watched her on the program as children.

* Movie theater employees may say, " Mr. Johnson is in theater number three " to indicate that there is a fire or smoke in that theater.