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Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.
" Dust in the Wind " has been covered by: Sarah Brightman, Scorpions ( Acoustica ), Christian artists Acappella and Billy Smiley, former New York Yankees center fielder and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams ( The Journey Within ), and ex-Kansas lead singer John Elefante ( 2006 ).
George Smiley and his former assistant Peter Guillam brief Leamas for his crucial mission.
Those who spoke at the funeral included Governor Daniels ( R ), U. S. Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., U. S. Senator Evan Bayh, D-Ind., former U. S. Senator Birch Bayh, D-Ind., U. S. Representative Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., U. S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, Indiana House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, Indianapolis Mayor Peterson, radio host and Hoosier native Tavis Smiley, and the Rev.
In 1995, le Carré said that the character of George Smiley was inspired by his one-time Lincoln College, Oxford tutor, the former Rev.
More commonly, it was rumoured that le Carré modelled the character on Sir Maurice Oldfield, a former head of British Intelligence, who physically resembled Smiley.
George Smiley is called out from retirement for the last time to investigate the death of one of his old agents, a former Soviet General, titular head of an Estonian
He contacts British Intelligence again, insisting on speaking to his former senior case officer " Max " ( George Smiley ), not realising that Smiley is also retired.
With help from his old friend and former lieutenant Peter Guillam, who is serving out his days in the British Embassy in Paris, Smiley gets Ostrakova to safety.
While Smiley does research at the Circus, Toby Esterhase, the former head of the Circus's " lamplighters " ( covert surveillance operations ) section, sets up a team in Bern to keep Grigoriev under observation.
Collins ' investigations prompt Smiley to recall Westerby — The Honourable Gerald " Jerry " Westerby, a former newspaper reporter and occasional SIS operative — and despatch him to Hong Kong.
Smiley countered with the assertion that he had offered the story — an interview with Sara Jane Olson, an alleged former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army — to CBS, which, along with BET, was owned by Viacom.
Notable former residents include Sir Joseph Swan, inventor of the incandescent light bulb and the reggae singer Smiley Culture whose controversial death occurred at his home in the village.
Minnewaska State Park Preserve adjoins the Preserve lands to the south, and protects another of former property of another member of the Smiley family as a state park and Sam's Point Preserve adds another parcel owned by The Nature Conservancy.
Extreme's former directors include Matt Zane, Ashlyn Gere, David Luger, Derek Newblood, Gene Ross, Jane Waters, Luis Cypher ( also known as Bobby Darlin ), Luciano ( Michael Stefano ), Scott Snot, Slain Wayne ( Eric Brummer ), Smiley Johnson, Tiffany Mynx, Tom Byron, Brandon Iron and Van Damage.
Smiley feuded with Brian Knobs, Meng and Terry Funk during his tenures as WCW Hardcore Champion, recruiting Chris Jericho's former associate Ralphus to be his manager.
It is located on the property of the former Smiley High School, now North Forest High School.

Smiley and Circus
In Call for the Dead, Le Carré's debut novel, a key character is Hans-Dieter Mundt ( nicknamed " Blondie "), an assassin of the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, who is working under diplomatic cover in London when uncovered by Circus agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.
Control tells Leamas that Smiley had not returned to the Circus after the events of Call for the Dead because of moral qualms about unethical Circus operations.
Smiley is an intelligence officer working for MI6 ( often referred to as " the Circus " in the novels and films ), the British overseas intelligence agency.
During this book, Smiley is forced to resign from the Circus to unravel an East German spy ring, in so doing clearing his own name and restoring his reputation, but remains retired, despite Maston's pleadings, at the end.
Smiley, who is a minor but pivotal character in the story, is supposedly still retired but is revealed during the story to be back in the Circus as one of the top aides to " Control ", Maston's mysterious successor as the Circus ' chief.
Smiley appeared again in The Looking Glass War, le Carre's fourth novel, but only in a peripheral role, supposedly occupying the " North European desk " at the Circus.
They recall Smiley from his forced retirement in the hope that he will bury any links to the Circus.
In 1974, George Smiley, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service ( known as " Circus "), is investigating his own organisation in the aftermath of capturing a Soviet mole amongst the service's previous leadership.
Because the US want to arrest Ko as a drug kingpin, they give Smiley 10 to 12 weeks to pursue Circus interests before intervening.
Its tasks are gradually being taken over by the more experienced Circus, led by " Control " and his right hand man George Smiley.
Circus agent George Smiley informs LeClerc and his colleagues about the killing of the East German sentry, and that East German security is looking for Leiser.
* George Smiley: Envoy from The Circus

Smiley and researcher
The building process known as " Oregon Cob " is one which was refined by Welsh architect Ianto Evans and researcher Linda Smiley in the 1980s.
As pointed out by researcher Richard A. Smiley in SABR's 2006 edition of The National Pastime, Zimmerman was long blamed for losing the game, although McGraw blamed Benton and Holke for failing to cover the plate — a serious fundamental error in baseball.

Smiley and Connie
Also, a popular NPR commentator Connie Rice read her Top Ten Weapons of Mass Distraction on The Tavis Smiley Show, July 14, 2004.
At the end of this case Smiley became interim Chief of the Service in late November 1974 to clean up the resultant mess, rebuilding the organization's headquarters staff by use of trusted old-timers like Guillam, Doc di Salis, and Connie Sachs.
Smiley and Connie Sachs are retired with pensions, and Peter Guillam is sent to head the scalphunters in Brixton.
In 2004, citing the CPD's 32 page debate contract, Connie Rice on NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show called the CPD debates " news conferences ," and " a reckless endangerment of democracy.

Smiley and who
Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.
Still other authors who have differing approaches to embouchure development include Louis Maggio, Jeff Smiley, and Jerome Callet.
Colonel David Smiley, an aristocratic Guards officer who had helped Enver Hoxha and his Communist guerillas to liberate Albania, now prepared to liberate it from Hoxha.
Le Carré's middle-class George Smiley is a middle-aged spy burdened with a faithless, upper-class wife who publicly cuckolds him for sport.
This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.
* Roger Guenveur Smith as Smiley, a young, mentally impaired man who tries to sell pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
The character of Smiley was not in the original script ; he was created by Roger Guenveur Smith, who was pestering Spike Lee for a role in the film.
Throughout mid-to-late 1967, Wilson concurrently oversaw the production of such heavily orchestrated songs as " Can't Wait Too Long " and " Time to Get Alone " ( the latter originally intended for Redwood, the band who would become Three Dog Night ), alongside the albums Smiley Smile ( composed mainly of reconstituted SMiLE material recorded in minimalist arrangements by the core Beach Boys ) and the R & B-inflected Wild Honey, both of which performed only modestly on the charts.
The film Smiley Face is based entirely on a woman who consumes a large amount of cannabis cupcakes.
In her essay Is Common Human Decency a Scarce Commodity in Popular Literature ?, Margaret Compton contrasts the ending of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with the ending of Call for the Dead: " Le Carré's début book ends with Smiley feeling deeply guilty about having killed Dieter Frey, the idealistic East German spy who had been Smiley's agent and friend ( and, in effect, his adopted son ) during the Second World War.
* George Smiley, a fictional character from the popular book of John Le Carré, movie franchise who is said to work for MI6
An autobiography of a British officer, honorary colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, David de Crespigny Smiley LVO, OBE, MC, who served in the Special Operations Executive during World War II ( Albania, Thaïland ) and was a MI6 officer after war ( Poland, Malta, Oman, Yemen ).
Smiley calls the girl, who confirms that Jake defended her against the attackers.
Guy Smiley is a character on Sesame Street who was dubbed " America's favorite game show host.
Among others in that are closely tied to the Gang Starr Foundation who have worked with DJ Premier include Afu Ra, Bahamadia, Krumbsnatcha, Big Shug, Smiley the Ghetto Child, and NYGz.
** Smiley park is a small park in the centre of the town also with tributes to emigrants to North America who left from the port of Larne.
Mescaleros Pablo Cook & Smiley together with Mike Peters ( The Alarm ), Derek Forbes ( Simple Minds ), Steve Harris ( Gary Numan ) are in Los Mondo Bongo ( a celebration of the music of Joe Strummer ) who together with Ray Gange ( DJ ) tour whenever possible performing those great Mescaleros tunes and have toured the UK and Canada.
Oldfield himself believed that, although Green probably inspired le Carré, the character of Smiley was primarily based on John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, who had been le Carré's boss when he originally joined MI5, prior to his career in MI6.
In 1999, le Carré confirmed that Bingham was also an inspiration for Smiley, and in 2000 went further, writing in an introduction to a reissue of one of Bingham's novels that " He had been one of two men who had gone into the making of George Smiley.

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