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Lehrer and was
The American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer has been rumored to have been the first to invent the gelatin shot in the 1950s while working for the National Security Agency, where he developed vodka gelatin as a way to circumvent a restriction of alcoholic beverages on base, but the claim that he was first is untrue.
The Jell-O shot was claimed to be in invented by American singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer in the 1950s to circumvent restrictions on alcoholic beverages at the army base he was then stationed at.
Lehrer earned his AB in mathematics ( magna cum laude ) from Harvard University in 1946, when he was nineteen.
In 1965 Tom Lehrer was to celebrate the erotic appeal of the novel in his cheerfully satirical song " Smut " with the couplet " Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
While he was Vice President, Hubert Humphrey was the subject of a satirical song by songwriter / musician Tom Lehrer entitled " Whatever Became of Hubert?
In 2008, Buckeye was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as part of a weeklong series entitled " Blueprint America.
Construction was given to Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons in association with Ellis Don of Toronto, but they were slow at building the tower, partly due to building workers going on strike in the Summer of 1989, so Lehrer McGovern took over.
Lehrer McGovern contracted out most of the work to Balfour Beatty because the Canary Wharf Tower was a difficult building to build.
His first teaching job was at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where his colleagues included Keith Lehrer, R. C. Sleigh, and Alvin Plantinga.
Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song " National Brotherhood Week " in the line " Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek " referring ( wryly ) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965.
The protest gained further nationwide significance through initiatives such as Wir Lehrer gegen die Rechtschreibreform ( Teachers Against the Spelling Reform ), which was headed by the teacher and activist Manfred Riebe.
George Murphy was the subject of a 1965 song by satirist Tom Lehrer, who declared in mock vaudeville style: " Oh, gee, it's great, at last we've got a Senator who can really sing and dance.
Poison the Well was originally named " An Acre Lost " and was started by singer Aryeh Lehrer and guitarist Ryan Primack.
Mrs. Douglas was mentioned in the song " George Murphy " by satirist Tom Lehrer.
In 1952, the Harvard University physics department's musical variety show The Physical Revue, written and performed by Tom Lehrer, was recorded on wire ; this recording was recently rediscovered and made available online.
Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Lois Catherine ( née Chapman ), a bank clerk, and Harry Frederick Lehrer, a bus station manager.
The news show was later renamed The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour, and after MacNeil's departure in 1995 was named The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and finally PBS NewsHour in 2009.

Lehrer and born
Thomas Andrew Lehrer ( born April 9, 1928 ) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician.
James Charles " Jim " Lehrer (; born May 19, 1934 ) is an American journalist and the executive editor and former news anchor for PBS NewsHour on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections.
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, ( born January 19, 1931 ), is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil / Lehrer Report in 1975.
In Württemberg it would be possible to attribute the Lehrer name to a schoolmaster, Mattheus Lehrer ( 21 Jan 1654 – 6 Feb 1721 ) who was born in Otisheim, WurrtemBurg, Germany.
Keith Lehrer ( born January 10, 1936 ) is the Regent's Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Arizona with an affiliation with the University of Miami in Florida.
* Ray Suarez ( born 1957 ), American journalist, senior correspondent of the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Lehrer and Jewish
The Jewish parody group Shlock Rock acknowledges Lehrer and " The Elements " as inspiration for " The Shabbat Song ".
Lehrer, potentially recorded in various spellings including Lehr, Lehrer, Lehrian and Lehrmann, is a surname that can be either Germanic or Jewish.

Lehrer and family
This would also fit with what one Lehrer family researcher has noted about the Lehrer name in Dabo, France for the year 1772:
There are a number of Lehrer families originating in southern Germany, north, west France, Austria and Bavaria, although unlikely some of these different lineages may all originate from the one family.
By following the birth places of the people furthest back in the known Lehrer family lines, as we move further back in time, there is a consistent movement into southern Germany.
There is a Lehrer family crest which would indicate there is likely recordings of who this was issued to and where they were from.

Lehrer and New
* Jonah Lehrer, former journalist for The New Yorker
1984-Publication of Principles and Practice of Stress Management by Woolfolk and Lehrer and Between Health and Illness: New Notions on Stress and the Nature of Well Being by Barbara B.
Gates publicized the book's release during a five-day tour of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, London and Paris, which included appearances on Nightline, Talking with David Frost, The Today Show, the Late Show with David Letterman, MTV, Fresh Air, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
According to Lehrer, the fact that papers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have disagreements is evidence that the media is not a monolithic entity.
The judges were Charlayne Hunter-Gault, New York Correspondent, The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour ; Anthony Lewis, syndicated columnist, The New York Times ; Steven Pico, First Amendment lecturer and advocate ; and Tom Wicker, political columnist, The New York Times.
* Tom Lehrer wrote a satirical song named " New Math " which revolved around the process of subtracting 173 from 342 in decimal and octal.
Neas is a consistent presence in the national media, interviewed regularly by the major TV, radio and print media, including: CBS's Face the Nation, ABC's Nightline ; CBS's Sunday Morning ; NBC's Today Show, ABC's This Week ; PBS ' a The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ; the nightly news shows of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox ; National Public Radio ; cable television and radio talk shows ; and national, regional and local newspapers ( in the New York Times and the Washington Post alone, he has been mentioned 250 and 500 times respectively ).
Notable alumni include former Secretary of State George Schultz 1938, former governor of Connecticut Ella T. Grasso 1936, satirist Tom Lehrer 1943, New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945, financier Henry R. Kravis 1963, actor, writer and producer James Widdoes 1972, 1998 Winter Olympic Games United States women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Ulion 1990 and Taiwanese fashion designer Jason Wu graduated in 2001.

Lehrer and began
Lehrer began the song:
Lehrer began his career in journalism at The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald, where he covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Lehrer began working with PBS network in 1973, and in 1975 developed and co-anchored The MacNeil / Lehrer Report with Robert MacNeil.
A few months later, the program was renamed The MacNeil / Lehrer Report and began to be broadcast nationwide on PBS stations.
Gergen ’ s career in television began in 1985, when he joined the MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour for Friday night discussions of politics.
* Tom Lehrer refers to it in his song " Alma "-" Her lovers were many and varied / From the day she began her -- beguine.

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