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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.
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.
Smiley shlug with Shloer.
* 1950 ( 11 ) Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am ( tie with Jack Burke, Jr., Smiley Quick, Dave Douglas ), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier ), Reading Open, North and South Open, Miami Open
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.
Examples of deliberately lo-fi-type sounds in pop music can be traced to at least 1967, with the two Beach Boys albums Smiley Smile and Wild Honey, having been recorded in the home of their leader Brian Wilson instead of an actual studio.
Furthermore, he was with his associate, Allen Smiley, reading a newspaper on the sofa, not watching himself on a home movie screen.
* Linda Ronstadt's interview with Tavis Smiley ( August 5, 2006 )
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.
Alonzo gives Smiley a package containing a large stack of money, which Smiley asks his sister to count while he plays poker with two other gang members.
He worked in Chicago, Illinois, on the WLS-AM radio show National Barn Dance for four years, and with his own show, where he met singer-songwriter Smiley Burnette.
" Efforts from those such as Smiley convinced Dr. King that any sort of weapons or “ self-defense ” could not be associated with someone holding King's position.
After Love Sculpture split, Edmunds had a UK Christmas Number 1 single in 1970 with " I Hear You Knocking ", a Smiley Lewis cover, which he came across while producing Shakin ' Stevens and the Sunsets ' first album entitled A Legend.
In 2005, the art thief Edward Forbes Smiley III, a well-known and trusted antiques dealer at that time, was caught slicing maps from rare books with an X-acto blade.
In 1996, the talk show BET Tonight debuted with Tavis Smiley as host ; in 2001, Ed Gordon replaced Tavis Smiley.
ComicView ; Video Soul with Donnie Simpson, Video Vibrations, Softones, Screen Scene, Unreal / Planet Groove / Caribbean Rhythms, Jam Zone / Cita's World ; Teen Summit ; and BET News with Ed Gordon, Lead Story, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, BET Nightly News, and Don't Sleep, with T. J. Holmes.
Smiley did make some appearances that didn't have anything notable to do with his hosting career.

Smiley and had
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.
The county coroner Ralph Smiley declared that all four had died instantly from " gross trauma " to the brain.
The sidekick was a regular presence in westerns, where Fuzzy Knight, Al " Fuzzy " St. John, Smiley Burnette, and Andy Devine had longer careers than some of the heroic singing cowboys for whom they took pratfalls.
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.
Although not wanting to testify against Alec Leamas, she admits that George Smiley paid for her apartment lease after visiting her and that she had promised Leamas to not look for him when he disappeared.
Smiley bitterly reflects that Dieter had remembered their friendship, and kept faithful to it while he, Smiley, forgot it and gave precedence to his ruthless Cold War loyalty.
Smiley never married or had children, but eventually became a high ranking cell leader in the Terran Resistance and after Mirror-Sisko's death, perhaps the leader.
Studio One has recorded and released music by ( and had a large hand in shaping the careers of ) artists such as The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, John Holt, Horace Andy, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown, Jackie Mittoo, Gladiators, Michigan & Smiley, Wailing Souls, Dillinger, Delroy Wilson, Heptones, Johnny Osbourne, Marcia Griffiths ( of the I-Threes ), Sugar Minott, The Abyssinians, Culture, Soul Vendors, Lone Ranger, Carlton and The Shoes and Alton Ellis.
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.
Smiley learns the General had discovered information that leads to a final confrontation with George Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.
Smiley recalls that Leipzig had often used a venal Soviet agent named Oleg Kirov, who was susceptible to blackmail, as a source of information.
He takes the half of the postcard to Kretzschmar, who matches it to the other half and gives Smiley a tape recording made at the time the photograph of Leipzig and Kirov was taken, and the photocopy of Ostrakova's first letter to Vladimir, which he had sent to Leipzig.
He drops the golden cigarette lighter near Smiley he had purloined from him years ago in an Indian prison, a gift to George from his unfaithful wife Ann.
According to Rieley in 1996 posts to the " Smiley Smile " message board, the band had split into two camps: the artistically inclined, drug using, bashful Wilson brothers and the commercially-oriented, teetotalling triumvirate of Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston.
There had never been an official true stereo release of the final track, until the 2012 remastered version of Smiley Smile, although previously bootlegs with illegitimate stereo mixes have been issued over the internet.
Joyce and her husband also had eight children of their own over the years, resulting at one point in 13 children and Mr. and Mrs. Smiley all living in the trailer-home.
After his friend Denver Smith was killed by Indiana police officers who claimed to have acted in self-defense, Smiley helped lead protests to defend Smith, whom he believed had been wrongfully killed.
Smiley then handwrote a letter to the mayor that he said represented his feeling " from the heart ", and Bradley called Smiley to say that he had a position available for him.

Smiley and offered
Over 100 readers including Jane Smiley offered comments on the subject.
Although Smiley has no concrete biography beyond that offered briefly at the beginning of Call for the Dead, le Carré does leave clues in his novels.
Smiley was then offered a chance to host a radio talk show on National Public Radio.

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Yet hints in the story Leamas's personal qualms about his role in the plot, and the qualms of Smiley and Fiedler about their roles indicate a different perspective.
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 flies to Hamburg, where he hopes to learn the rest of the story.
Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET, defended the decision, stating that Smiley had been fired because he had sold an exclusive interview to ABC News without first offering the story to BET, even though Smiley's contract with BET did not require him to do so.
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story " Lily ", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly.
The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " ( its original title ) and " The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".
In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley.
* Jim Smiley, gambler in the Mark Twain story " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County "
He then tells them the story of " the before time ", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, " Carousel ", " The Provider " ( who turns out to be a statue of John Elway ), and " The M Word ".

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