Powell's bright start continued with a further three victories, before running into a dreadful downturn which saw the club go 11 games in succession without a win.

Since 2001, the two companies have shared a CEO, Ilan Yeshua, who has continued Powell's strategy of introducing new products with the Britannica name.

Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell stated: " I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were ... our terrible enemy, America ...." Powell's conviction of the anti-British attitude of the Americans continued during the war.

In Powell's later career as an Ulster Unionist MP he continued to criticise the United States and claimed that the Americans were trying to persuade the British to surrender Northern Ireland into an all-Irish state because the condition for Irish membership of NATO, Powell claimed, was Northern Ireland.

After Brown and Powell's deaths, Roach continued leading a similarly configured group, with Kenny Dorham ( and later the short-lived Booker Little ) on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor and pianist Ray Bryant.

He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956 – 1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963: after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season ( as The Dick Powell Theater ), with guest hosts.

He continued to be active into his nineties as a writer and book reviewer ; a month before his death, he spoke at a symposium honoring Anthony Powell's centenary at Georgetown University.

Mulvey posits in her notes to the Criterion Collection DVD of Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom that the cinema spectator ’ s own voyeurism is made shockingly obvious and even more shockingly, the spectator identifies with the perverted protagonist.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

Lewis himself jumped 8. 91m moments before Powell's record-breaking jump with the wind exceeding the maximum allowed ; this jump remains the longest ever to win Olympic or World Championship gold medal, or any competition in general.

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

Indeed, according to John Evans, Chaplain of Trinity and Extra Preacher to the Queen, instructions were left with him to reveal after Powell's death that at least one of the romantic affairs of his life had been homosexual.

In Powell's view this was " one of the most horrible things that I remember in politics ... seeing the way in which Harold Macmillan, with all the skill of the old actor-manager, succeeded in false-footing Rab.

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

Powell had his friend, Andrew Alexander, talk with Labour Party leader Harold Wilson's press secretary, Joe Haines, on Powell's timing of his speeches against Heath.

This call to vote Labour surprised some of Powell's supporters who were more concerned with beating socialism than the supposed loss of national independence.

Powell's rhetorical gifts were also employed, with success, beyond politics.

The group was led by John Powell's younger brother, Henry, who arrived with 80 settlers and 10 slaves — these first ten slaves were among the sometimes kidnapped and other times runaway English or Irish youth.

Powell's attack on Seward was coordinated with Booth's attack on President Abraham Lincoln and George Atzerodt's attack on Vice President Andrew Johnson in order to maximize the element of surprise and to sever the continuity of the United States government.

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

Baxter was a close friend of William Powell with whom he starred in three films and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.

She made four films in close succession with William Powell: Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), which also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which she played Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second " Thin Man " film, After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and the romantic comedy Double Wedding ( 1937 ).

There he said with tears in his eyes, " I will remember three things in my life: the sunset, the Grand Canyon and Eleanor Powell's dancing.

It met with modest success, and critics compared Powell's portrayal of John Buchan's character favourably with his predecessors.

In the early 1940s, Powell played in a few dance orchestras, including that of Cootie Williams, whom Powell's mother decided her son should play for and tour with ( rather than accept an offer from Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie, whose modernist quintet was about to open at a midtown nightclub ).

Powell's career advanced when Charlie Parker chose him to be his pianist on a quintet record date, with Miles Davis, Tommy Potter, and Max Roach in May 1947.

Bebop's and Powell's increased visibility by the end of 1948, the latter's celebrity seemingly having accelerated in anticipation of his release, made plain as well that he had a serious problem with alcohol.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Another member of the conspiracy, David Herold, led Powell to the Seward home on horseback and was responsible for holding Powell's horse while he committed the attack as well as guiding him out of the city during their escape.

The Strand occupies 55, 000 square feet of space while Powell's flagship Burnside location has over 68, 000.

No congressional hearing was created to investigate Powell's alleged misallocation of funds, while Cope and Marsh were not held responsible for any mistakes.

In 1872 Alan H. Thompson, a surveyor attached to United States Army Major John Wesely Powell's expedition, crossed the Waterpocket Fold while exploring the area.

Both Colley and Powell's house are boys ' residences and are on the west side of campus while Walker and Baillie are girls ' residences and are closer to the east side of the campus.

The former is Powell's " Shoshonean ", while the latter is all the rest, i. e., Powell's " Sonoran " plus Aztecan.

Powell's margin of victory in the general election was a thin 850 votes, while Whig candidate John P. Thompson defeated the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, Robert Wickliffe, by several thousand votes.

In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

Powell's first novel, Afternoon Men, was published by Duckworth in 1931, with Powell supervising its production himself.

This production featured Anthony Powell's Tony Award nominated costumes, a slightly modified libretto by Schulman and Don Black and a new, more tour-friendly set by Derek McLane.

The production has been criticized by some ( who claim Cozy Powell's drums drown out most of the other instruments ) and praised by others, who note that this is one of Sabbath's heaviest albums and perhaps the most prominently reliant on keyboards by the perennial 5th member, Geoff Nicholls.

A student at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, she was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra in Michael Powell's The Girl in the Crowd ( 1935 ).

Nor is all peaceful among the characters, as they react to Powell's seduction of Maria Cornish, Dahl-Soot's seduction of Schnak, and the inevitable tensions created by the effort to mount an operatic production.