" Lew Wallace Got Ben-Hur Going — and He's Never Stopped.

According to Wojciech Strepa, a Hungarian-Saxon warlord named Hujd, having come with a small army to Lew, prince of Ruthenia ( 1269 – 1301 ), and having allied himself with Lithuania, devastated Mazovia.

To help, Lew invites Boyd to come live with Charley and him.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

From that day on he never spoke to Harry or to Lew, or to Lew's two boys, Mort and Jimmy.

The 1966 movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the first Lew Archer story The Moving Target ( 1949 ).

McGoohan stated in a 1977 interview ( broadcast as part of a Canadian documentary about The Prisoner called The Prisoner Puzzle ) that during the filming of the third season of Danger Man he told Lew Grade, then-chairman of ITC Entertainment, that he wanted to quit working on Danger Man after the filming of the proposed fourth series.

The show centers on a fictional state police force led by former U. S. naval officer Steve McGarrett ( played by Jack Lord ), who was appointed by the Governor, Paul Jameson ( played by Richard Denning, though Lew Ayres played the Governor in the pilot ).

* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.

Unfortunately as soon as Anderson's boss Lew Grade heard Unwin's character speaking gobbledegook he cancelled the show on the grounds that people would not understand it-despite the fact that they were not meant to.

At the U. S. Open in 1947, Snead missed a 2-foot putt on the final playoff hole to lose to Lew Worsham.

Bunting had served as a colonel in the Confederacy during the Civil War before establishing himself in Indianapolis ; General Lew Wallace, who was on the Union side during the War and was a resident of Montgomery County, spoke at the dedication of the cornerstone in 1875.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

On the back of their success on stage and on screen, in 1961 Lew Grade offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV.

On 28 November 1936, the BBC opened its TV service at Alexandra Palace and in 1955 with the opening of Lew Grade's London weekend franchise Associated Television ( ATV ), the Wood Green Empire in Lymington Avenue was home to variety programmes on Independent Television ( ITV ), one of which was the ' Arthur Haynes Show ', starring the host himself and his straight man Nicholas Parsons.

William Carlos Williams was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like Lew Welch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl ( 1955 ).

By early April, all six of the divisions were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River, Lew Wallace's at Crump's Landing and the rest farther south at Pittsburg Landing.

New trumpeters Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield brought the band up to nine total members and the new lineup of the band debuted at the Cafe Au Go Go on June 18, 1968, at the beginning of a two week residency.

Suchet appeared on daytime TV chat show Loose Women on 6 February 2008 to talk about his film The Bank Job, in which he played Lew Vogel, alongside Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows.

The golf course is on historical land: the number two and number four greens lie along the road where General Lew Wallace marched his three brigades to the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1852.

Relatively unknown during most of his lifetime, Billy was catapulted into legend in 1881 when New Mexico's governor, Lew Wallace, placed a price on his head.

" The Kid then carried a $ 500 bounty on his head that had been authorized by governor Lew Wallace.

The pardon was considered to be a follow-through on a purported promise made by then Governor Lew Wallace in 1879.

The recording of their fourth studio album, 1986's From Luxury to Heartache ( UK No. 10, US No. 32 ) dragged on for so long that producer Arif Mardin had to abandon the sessions due to prior commitments and leave it to engineer Lew Hahn to record the final vocals.

Production was cancelled by ITC owner Lew Grade before the pilot episode aired ; the 13 completed episodes aired sporadically on ATV and other British broadcasters beginning in 1969.

For the film ’ s many fight scenes Carpenter worked with martial arts choreographer James Lew, who planned out every move in advance.

By March 1879, New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace began a fight against crime in that state, and one of his priorities was to stop the ongoing war between the Dolans and the Tunstall-McSween backers.

On March 17, 2005, all 22 episodes were released in a 5-disc DVD boxed set in central Europe through Dutch distributor A-Film, and features the original broadcast trailer, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and interview snippets with cast members Mark Dacascos, Marc Gomes, Sabine Karsenti, Katie Stuart, and John Pyper-Ferguson ; fight co-ordinator James Lew ; crow handler Dave Sousa, director of photography Attila Szaly, and executive producers Bryce Zabel and Brad Markowitz.

Lew Durkin yelled.

One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.

It stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

There was a return of Billy the Cat inside, as well as a new Super School strip by Lew Stringer.

Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer.

* 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor ( b. 1908 )

Designed by Ken and Lew Norris, the Bluebird K7 was an all-metal jet-propelled 3-point hydroplane with a Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl jet engine producing of thrust.

* 1994 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player ( b. 1934 )

* 1922 – Lew Anderson, American actor and musician ( d. 2006 )

* 1913 – Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player ( d. 1994 )

Various irregularities have been exposed during the investigation by a special parliamentary committee into the Lew Rywin affair.

Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and Universal Studios, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced.

He fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark " Lew " Lewman and Andy Jenkins, both co-editors of Freestylin ' Magazine in the mid-to late 1980s, where Jonze worked as a photographer.

His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel.

She hired lawyer Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur, and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $ 20, 000 for libel.

With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.