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McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.
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The Coalition won a massive victory in that election, and Fadden, who transferred to the newly created seat of McPherson on the Gold Coast, became Treasurer in the second Menzies government.
Jim Norton won an Olivier Award for his performance while McPherson was nominated for both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play.
In a review in Booklists of Epstein's book of poetry The Traveler's Calendar, ( February 29, 2002 ) the critic wrote, " Biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat ' King ' Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay have won Epstein greater renown, but his best writing is his mythically and historically haunted poetry .... Epstein's new work ... expresses the sorrows of the middle of life's journey with near-Dantesque poignancy.
The Liberal Party won the election, and McPherson served for four years as a backbench supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie King's government.
Neil McPherson was named as Best Artistic Director in the 2009 Fringe Report Awards and both the 2011 and 2012 Off West End Awards, and won an award for the Encouragement of New Writing from the Writers Guild of Great Britain in 2010.
McPherson and 1978
McPherson and Pulitzer
Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson, writing for the American Historical Association, described the importance of revisionism:
In 1972, the " Book World " section was introduced with Pulitzer Prize winning critic William McPherson as its first editor.
* James Alan McPherson ( born 1943 ), American short story writer and essayist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
* James M. McPherson ( born 1936 ), Pulitzer Prize-winning United States history professor and Civil War historian
* McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ( 1988 ), 900 page survey ; Pulitzer prize
* McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ( 1988 ), 900 page survey of all aspects of the war ; Pulitzer prize
* James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of the seminal Civil War monograph Battle Cry of Freedom
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian James McPherson had identified the site as part of “ the nerve center of the Union Army during the Battle of the Wilderness .”
McPherson and for
When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.
One key distinction is the purpose for the practice ; handloaders often seek smaller batches of high-quality ammunition, whereas reloaders are said to make large quantities of ammunition that does not need to be of as high quality but at least one authority ( McPherson ) holds that a better distinction for these connotations is that, regardless of quantity, handloads tend to be of generally high quality while reloads tend to be merely functional.
On September 30, 1994, Nichols bought forty bags of ammonium nitrate from Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, an amount regarded as unusual even for a farmer.
The University of Victoria Libraries system is the second largest in British Columbia being composed of three ' on-campus ' libraries, the William C. Mearns Center for Learning / McPherson Library, the Diana M. Priestly Law Library, and the MacLaurin Curriculum Library.
* Patricia McPherson as Dr. Bonnie Barstow ( Seasons 1, 3-4 ) – KITT's chief technician and as romantic tension for Michael.
As part of the William McPherson Collection in the Special Collections at Claremont Colleges ’ Honnold / Mudd Library, the Matrimonial Investigation Records of the San Gabriel Mission are a valuable resource for research on the pre-statehood activities of the Mission.
It is the only county in South Dakota named for a non-American person and is one of only nine counties in South Dakota named for persons who did not live in South Dakota ( Clay, Custer, Douglas, Grant, Hamlin, Lincoln, McPherson, and Meade are the other eight ).
Fuller's Ranch provided accommodations for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and was probably the first white settlement in McPherson County.
In May the McPherson Town Company had offered, as an inducement for the location of the county seat at this point, the free use of rooms for ten years, and the donation of two squares of land on the town site.
The cities of Lindsborg and McPherson are considered governmentally independent and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.
* When the Church was charged with a felony count of practicing medicine without a license in the 1996 case involving the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson, Florida asked for damages of approximately $ 15, 000 to be awarded against the organization.
Fuller's Ranch provided accommodations for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and was probably the first white settlement in McPherson County.
Seibert and Goodman's company, Fred / Alan ( now Frederator Studios ), teamed up with Tom Corey and Scott Nash of the advertising firm Corey McPherson Nash to replace the " pinball " logo with the " orange splat " logo that would be used in hundreds of different variations for the next quarter century.
McPherson and fiction
" “ Magnetic Rose ” was also regarded as " a science fiction marvel " by Homemademech ’ s Mark McPherson, who praised its dialogue and realistic presentation of outer space physics.
McPherson and short
Following intervention by fellow Scientologists, McPherson refused psychiatric observation or admission at the hospital and checked herself out after a short evaluation.
She was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, but some Scientologists arrived and stated that McPherson did not believe in psychiatry, and she checked out after a short evaluation and left with the Scientologists.
In 1864 General McPherson assumed command of the Army of the Tennessee and for a short time no officer was appointed to command the corps.
Together with goalkeeper Findlay Kerr, who joined the following season, White, McGill and McPherson would become the backbone of the Marksmen team throughout the its short history.
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