Tayron Thomas was one of the top players in the history of the Philadelphia University Men's Basketball Program.

Tayron additionally Earned All-Tournament honors at the 2005 Disney Tip-Off Classic where he set two tournament records — total points ( 98 ) and points per game ( 32. 7 ).

* The book How It Was with Dooms tells the true story of a family raising an orphaned cheetah cub named Duma ( the Swahili word for cheetah ) in Kenya.

( There was also a playwright named Kenneth Horne, 1900 – 1975, author of such comedies as Love in a Mist, And This Was Odd, Wolf's Clothing and A Public Mischief.

Peroutka's last drama was named Kdybych se ještě jednou narodil (" If I Was Born One More Time ").

Was named Port Henry in honor of Henry Huntington of Rome, New York.

Was originally named Salmon City after the nearby Salmon Creek.

How Late it Was, How Late ( 1994 ), won the Booker Prize that year ; A. L. Kennedy ( 1965-) whose 2007 novel Day was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.

:: ( Latin: Terra Nova ) Was named by its European discoverers around 1500 ; possibly by the Portuguese explorer João Vaz Corte-Real in 1472, making it the oldest European name in North America

Masterson was named Best Feature Film Producer of 2008 by the LA Femme Film Festival for her work as producer of Yesterday Was a Lie.

* Was named the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Game in 1996.

The problem, as revealed by CBS historian Robert Metz ( in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye ), was that Ace didn't get official credit for his creation for many years ; a CBS executive vice president named Desmond Taylor gained the original credit for the show born on radio as CBS Was There and famed ( especially on television, with future anchor Walter Cronkite narrating ) for its introduction, which leapt into the American vernacular: " All things are as they were then, except you ... are ...

Was a parishioner of Our Lady Help of Christians Church located at E. 28 St. & Avenue M. In 1978, the Marine Parkway Bridge was renamed the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. Public School 193 in Midwood and a bowling alley in Mill Basin is named after Hodges, and on April 4, 2001 a portion of Bedford Avenue from Ave's.

* Tak Zakalyalaz ' Stal (" The Steel Was Tempered Thus ") ( 1988 ), named after Nikolai Ostrovsky's book How the Steel Was Tempered ;

* Warren Mears builds a lifelike android named April as a companion in the episode " I Was Made to Love You ", then builds the Buffybot for Spike as well as an android version of himself.

* Was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2004.

A fairy named Mab is one of the main characters in Francesca Lia Block's novel I Was a Teenage Fairy.

Was named Minas Department until 1927.

* Chet Corley ( Ron Canada ) Was briefly named head coach of Oakbridge High boy's basketball team after Mark forfeits the position due to not returning P. J.

*" She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field " was originally named " John Hughes ", presumably after the film director.

The Man Who Was Poe, a juvenile novel by Avi, features Dupin befriending a young boy named Edmund.

Was opened in 1792 and named in honour of General Alured Clarke.

Was named All-SEC again and earned the AP SEC Defensive Player of the Year that season, as well as making the list of several different All-American teams, and was a finalist for the Butkus Award, Lombardi Award, and Chuck Bednarik college defensive player of the year award.

Was drafted in the fifth round of the 1972 National Basketball Association Draft by the Houston Rockets but played the majority of his career with the San Antonio Spurs in the ABA.

*"' Wreckreation ' Was The Name Of The Game That Flourished 100 Years Ago ", The New York Times, March 30, 1969.

* Obituary, NY Times, April 6, 1975, The Life of Chiang Kai-shek: A Leader Who Was Thrust Aside by Revolution

* Upstate, Where It Was First Made, Unwavering Devotion to Jell-O New York Times May 4, 2008

* December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II ( on January 4, 1970, the New York Times will run a long article, " Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random ").

* Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors John Schwartz for The New York Times July 13, 2009

My Father, The Man Who Never Was: Ronnie Reed, The Life and Times of an MI5 Officer.

*“ Víctor Haya de la Torre Is Dead ; Elder Statesman of Peru Was 84 ,” Obituary ( AP ), New York Times, August 4, 1979, 24.

* Was selected by the film critics of The New York Times as one of the 1000 best films ever made.

In a 2010 Los Angeles Times article, former Happy Days writer Fred Fox Jr., who wrote the episode that later spawned the phrase, said, " Was the jump episode of Happy Days deserving of its fate?

" Cosmic Life Energy Was Just What the Doctor Ordered: Review of Selected Writings by Wilhelm Reich ", The New York Times Book Review, 3, 26.

Her first, the memoir There Really Was a Hollywood, was a New York Times bestseller.

In 1999 Supertramp released the live It Was the Best of Times, followed by Slow Motion in 2002 and a worldwide tour, after which the band went inactive once again.

Was on the New York Times bestseller list.

* The Man on the Table Was 97, but He Devised the Surgery -- The New York Times

A Short History of a Small Place, Off for the Sweet Hereafter, The Last of How It Was, Cry Me a River, Polar and Blue Ridge were New York Times Notable Books.

Coren's other books include The Dog It Was That Died ( 1965 ), The Sanity Inspector ( 1974 ), All Except The Bastard ( 1978 ), The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions ( 1978 ), Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz ( 1979 ), Tissues for Men ( 1981 ), Bumf ( 1984 ), Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren ( 1989 ), More Like Old Times ( 1990 ), A Year in Cricklewood ( 1991 ), Toujours Cricklewood?

*“ Was He the Eggman ?” An account in The New York Times about Lemuel Benedict and the efforts of Jack Benedict, the son of Lemuel's first cousin, to promote Lemuel's story.

* The Date Was Nov. 31 Review by the New York Times, July 10, 1955.

* The New York Times, April 20, 1978, U. S. Was Prepared to Defend the Canal.

New York Times Obituary-Toshiwo Doko Is Dead ; Industry Chief Was 91

* Ned Sherrin: That Was The Life That Was-The Times

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* Larry Rohter, His Widow Reveals Much Of Who B. Traven Really Was The New York Times of 25 June 1990