Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).

" Sullivan had little acting ability ; in 1967, 20 years after his show's debut, Time magazine asked " What exactly is Ed Sullivan's talent?

Sullivan had a healthy sense of humor about himself and permitted — even encouraged — impersonators such as John Byner, Frank Gorshin, Rich Little and especially Will Jordan to imitate him on his show.

At a time when television had not yet embraced country and Western music, Sullivan was adamant about featuring Nashville performers on his program.

There was another side to Sullivan: he could be very quick to take offense if he felt he had been crossed, and could hold a grudge for a long time.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets had first appeared on the Sullivan show in 1957, singing two songs and making a favorable impression on Sullivan.

Sullivan, who had approved the song at a previous rehearsal, backed Dylan's decision.

Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.

" Joe DeRita, who worked with the Stooges after 1959, had commented that Sullivan had a personality " like the bottom of a bird cage.

Sullivan apparently had no idea who McCartney was.

Sullivan would check with Kirkpatrick if a potential guest had some " explaining to do " about his politics.

They had one daughter, Betty Sullivan ( who married the Ed Sullivan Shows producer, Bob Precht ).

In early September 1974, X-rays revealed that Sullivan had advanced esophageal cancer.

After less than a year had passed in Silsbee's office, Wright learned that the Chicago firm of Adler & Sullivan was " looking for someone to make the finish drawings for the interior of the

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

Founded in 1920 by George Alexander Sullivan, the Order had been based upon a blend of Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Freemasonry and his own personal innovation, and had moved to Christchurch in 1930.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

Sullivan had one installed as well, and on 13 May 1883, at a party to celebrate the composer's 41st birthday, the guests, including the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ), heard a direct relay of parts of Iolanthe from the Savoy.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.

At that point Sullivan moved on to Chicago in 1873 to take part in the building boom following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

His writings preceded, and were at times surprisingly consistent with, later neo-Freudian insights such as those evidenced in the works of Otto Rank, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm, some considering that it would take several decades for Freudian ego psychology to catch up with Adler's ground-breaking approach.

Ordered to take part in a punitive Sullivan Expedition against the Native Americans, he was dissatisfied with this command, and intended to leave the service and return to Europe, but was dissuaded by Washington.

As Forrest continued his advance the following day, Sullivan ordered Colonel Adolph Englemann to take a small force northeast of Jackson.

Accordingly he was pleased when, despite his relative inexperience in legitimate theatre, he received a letter from Arthur Sullivan in November 1877 inviting him to take a part in his new piece with W. S. Gilbert: The Sorcerer.

As such, new cast members Lewis MacLeod, Kate O ' Sullivan and Enn Reitel were drafted in to take over.

Utopia, Limited was to be McIntosh's only part with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, as Sullivan refused to write another piece if she was to take part in it.

John Sullivan became a scenery shifter at the BBC because of his desire to write a sitcom outline he had called Citizen Smith ; fearing rejection if he sent the idea in, he decided it would be better to get a job, any job, at the BBC, learn more about the business and then meet someone who would actually take notice of his as yet unwritten script.

Although in truth, Washington's guidance to Sullivan had been that he take Ft Niagara, " if possible ," an option not easily within Sullivan's means given the limitations of his artillery ( no guns bigger than six inch field howitzers ) and his logistics.

The sketch features a child plaintiff ( usually played by Drake Bell, Josh Peck, Raquel Lee, and / or another child actor ) " suing " an adult defendant ( played by Johnny Kassir, Nancy Sullivan, and or another adult actor ) for petty incidents against the child like giving a kid a shot, telling the kid to turn down their stereo, giving a kid an apple instead of candy on Halloween, telling a kid to please stop mocking someone, making a kid take a bath after playing in the mud, or sending a kid up to their room for refusing to kiss their aunt or even deserved punishments such as a grounding or an after-school detention given where as the child will have done something deserving of far worse punishment such as pushing the Principal's car into a swimming pool, playing baseball in the house, egging someone's house on Halloween, filling the house with water, selling a house for a large amount of money to go to an expensive theme park, releasing zoo animals from their cages, painting the White House pink, gluing everything in the entire classroom, putting itching powder in someone's clothes, painting someone orange, stealing an expensive space shuttle and losing it, or shutting down the Internet.

" The whole idea is to take these things on before they become conventional wisdom ," said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan.

This movement featured its own counterpart to the Sullivan Principles ; known as the " MacBride Principles " ( named for Nobel Peace Prize winner Sean MacBride ), which called for American and other foreign companies to take the initiative in alleviating alleged discrimination against Roman Catholics by adopting policies resembling affirmative action.

In February 1964, when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, they, like so many other kids around the country, were hooked and they drove their parents crazy begging to take guitar lessons.

The actor's representative Meredith O ' Sullivan confirmed the news to People magazine citing his need to take a break from his busy schedule in order to maintain sobriety.

There was a command performance of The Gondoliers for Queen Victoria and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 6 March 1891, the first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be so honoured and the first theatrical entertainment to take place at Windsor since the death of Prince Albert thirty years earlier.

Sullivan refused to write another piece if she was to take part in it.

Barbara starts promoting her book with Vicky's help, and things take off when they get Judy Garland to sing the song " Down with Love " as a promotion to the book on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Once again, Robert Fremont and Jim Sullivan would take a Stoner design and redesign it for the. 223 Remington cartridge, to create the Stoner 63 Weapons System.

By contrast, Ireland's coach, Eddie O ' Sullivan chose Ireland's strongest available team, hoping to take a prized southern hemisphere scalp and boost his team's morale.

The Brigadier summons the base medical officer, Lieutenant Harry Sullivan to take the Doctor to sickbay and care for him.

He directed Private Sullivan of Number 1 Company to take the ram into his possession.

Recently Barry has been on a Soccer AM edition of Partner Swap, ( take of Wife Swap ), where he was partnered up with Theresa O ' Sullivan.

As Forrest continued his advance the next day, Sullivan ordered Col. Adolph Englemann to take a small force northeast of Jackson.