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Johnston and missed
Johnston missed the first six first-class matches, and with it a month of cricket.

Johnston and Fourth
After relegation to the Fourth Division, Town returned to all-blue shirts with the return of Tom Johnston in 1975.
* Caldwell, Craig and Victor S. Johnston ( 1991 ), Tracking a Criminal Suspect through " Face-Space " with a Genetic Algorithm, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithm, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, pp. 416-421, July 1991.
After supporting Lindwall in a 48-run partnership in the first innings of the Fourth Test, Johnston took 4 / 95 in the second innings, including three in the space of 16 runs.
After taking 5 / 18 in an innings win over North Eastern Transvaal, Johnston was ineffective in the high-scoring drawn Fourth Test, taking 1 / 68.
Johnston had quiet Third Test with only a total of 1 / 82 in an innings victory, but he returned to form in the Fourth Test in Adelaide with 3 / 58 and 4 / 73 in a 274-run win.
In the Fourth Test in Melbourne, Johnston took match figures of 5 / 110, removing Weekes in both innings, before coming to the crease in the second innings to partner Doug Ring.
Johnston's daughter, Elizabeth Johnston Patterson, served in the U. S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District from 1987 to 1993.

Johnston and Test
His cricket and general knowledge were called upon in his role as a regular team captain on BBC Radio 4's quiz show Trivia Test Match with Tim Rice and Brian Johnston which ran from 1986 to 1993.
Perhaps the most famous Colemanball is that of Brian Johnston announcing that " The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey " on a BBC Radio Test Match Special, although this may be apocryphal.
* Tex Johnston, Jet-Age Test Pilot
But, after his Test Match Special colleague Brian Johnston had nicknamed him " Sir Frederick ", there were those who thought he had really been knighted and many, particularly in his native county, who could not understand why he had not.
The " birdsong " test transmissions became a famous landmark of British radio and attracted many newspaper articles and comment prior to the station's launch, including one live comment during BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special when commentator Brian Johnston referred to listening to the birdsong, much to the fury of BBC management who were fearful of Classic FM's impending launch.
* Black, G. A. and Johnston, R. B., " A Test of Magnetometry as an Aid to Archaeology ," American Antiquity, Vol.
Brian Johnston joined the BBC in January 1946 and began his cricket commentating career at Lord's for BBC Television in June 1946 at the England v India Test match.
In 1970 Johnston was dropped from the TV commentary team but continued to appear as a member of the team for the radio broadcasts, Test Match Special ( TMS ).
When he retired after the Centenary Test against Australia at Lords in September 1980, he was the longest serving TMS commentator ( since equalled by Brian Johnston in 1993 and subsequently exceeded by Christopher Martin-Jenkins ).
Brian Johnston was once taken to task by a schoolmistress correspondent, pretending indignation, for saying during a West Indies Test commentary: " The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey.
**" This is a Test " by Jim Johnston ( WWE ) ( 1999-2002 )
**" This is a Test " ( Instrumental ) by Jim Johnston ( WWE ) ( 2002-2004 ) ( ECW Brand 2006-2007 )
In 1991 Jonathan Agnew and Brian Johnston, commentators on BBC Radio's Test Match Special, got themselves into difficulty while commentating on Ian Botham's dismissal ( Botham dislodged his leg bail whilst trying to step over the stumps, having lost his balance in missing a hook shot against Curtly Ambrose ), Agnew commenting that he " couldn't quite get his leg over ".
According to an urban myth, during a Test match between the West Indies and England when Holding was to bowl to English player Peter Willey, the commentator at the time, Brian Johnston, described the action as " The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey " ( a double entendre, as " willy " is British English slang for a penis ).
Later in the day, Brian Johnston of BBC Radio's Test Match Special read out the details of the scorecard as normal.
* BBC Sport Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew of BBC radio's Test Match Special discussing Ian Botham's dismissal ' Hit wicket '.
He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder ( often shortened to Bearders ) by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments, at the same time as keeping perfect scorecards, and because he had a beard.
William Arras Johnston ( 26 February 1922 24 May 2007 ) was an Australian cricketer who played in forty Test matches from 1947 to 1955.
Johnston headed the wicket-taking lists in both Test and first-class matches on the tour, and was the last Australian to take over 100 wickets on a tour of England.
Prior to the Second World War, Johnston was a slow-medium and left arm orthodox spin bowler, but during a practice session, he bowled a quicker ball to Jack Ryder a former Australian captain and Test batsman, who was now a Victorian and national selector.
In the last outing before the Tests, Johnston took 3 / 40 and 5 / 37 to set up a nine-wicket win over New South Wales, including the wickets of Test openers Sid Barnes and Arthur Morris with the new ball at the start of the match.
Johnston ( with his left arm wrapped around his chest ) successfully appeals to the umpire for Leg before wicket | lbw against Indian batsman Hemu Adhikari during the second Test at Sydney Cricket Ground | Sydney, December 1947
When Johnston was omitted in favour of Ring, it appeared he would not be in Bradman's Test plans.

Johnston and due
Johnston started his army in motion on April 3, 1862, intent on surprising Grant's force as soon as the next day, but they moved slowly due to their inexperience, bad roads and lack of adequate staff planning.
In 1990, due to these measures, Johnston predicted that the government would be in surplus by the 1995 fiscal year.
He was finally appointed to the bench in June, but withdrew days later to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia ( former Conservative Premier James W. Johnston initially received this appointment, but had to withdraw due to ill health ).
However, mainly due to public pressure, the production team of Alastair Scott Johnston and Lawrie Wyman managed to revert the show back to nautical capers, even though episode ten of The TV Lark revealed that CPO Pertwee had arranged to flog almost the entirety of HMS Troutbridge.
Sue Johnston claimed, on The One Show, that the special had been postponed rather than scrapped, and that the reason behind the delay was due to Ralf Little and Craig Cash's work on The Cafe proving more time consuming than initially thought.
Many working-class Chinese immigrants also settled in Fitzroy due to its proximity to Chinatown, with also a noticeable Vietnamese community ; a small enclave of Africans lives there, and the area ( particularly Johnston Street ) serves as a centre of Melbourne's Hispanic community, with many Spanish and Latin American-themed restaurants, clubs, bars and some stores.
Here on May 31, Johnston attacked an isolated portion of the Union army in the Battle of Seven Pines ; Johnston's plan failed, due to uncoordinated attacks and to Confederate columsn which failed to arrive at their assigned positions, and Johnston was wounded during the battle.
This is due to the vocal tracks being missing, currently ; Bruce Johnston has stated that he believes they were accidentally destroyed in 1967 during a ' spring cleaning ' of the Columbia studio.
Johnston and Segathevan were arrested by the Ekurhuleni metro police, but Henk Strydom, Boksburg's senior public prosecutor, declined to prosecute due to " insufficient evidence and a case totally without merit ", and Johnston and Segathevan obtained a court interdict to protect them from McBride and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department, as they claimed McBride had made death threats against them, which McBride denied.
After being considered for the position for the 1992 93 season but having been unable to come to terms on a contract with Pittsburgh, Johnston was once again hired as head coach of the Penguins for 1993 94 and guided the Pens until the 1996 97 season, when he was asked to step down due to the Penguins ' failure to win a third Stanley Cup under his guidance.
Participating scholars have in years past stayed in assigned rooms at the Mark Twain Residence Hall, but due to renovations are staying in Wolpers and Johnston Halls in 2012.
In 2008, Johnston publicly expressed his frustration to Billboard Magazine at the inability of WWE to secure better promotional deals with artists due to a lack of understanding of the WWE product.

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