Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Brian Thayer was a thoroughly honest and competent administrator.

The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

* In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy for his commitment to the ideals of " Duty, Honor, Country.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and raised in Worcester.

Thayer ’ s last piece, dated June 24, 1888, was a ballad entitled " Casey " (" Casey at the Bat ").

It took several months after its publication for the poem to make Thayer famous, since he was hardly the boastful type and had signed the June 24 poem with the nickname " Phin " which he had used since his time on the Lampoon.

On the possible model for Casey, Thayer dismissed the notion that any single living baseball player was an influence.

A 2004 book by Howard W. Rosenberg, Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U. S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, reprints a 1905 Thayer letter to a Baltimore scribe who was asking about the poem's roots.

The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ), who greatly expanded the size and quality of the Navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

He was also the first recipient of the Sylvanus Thayer Award.

For his service to his country, Lawrence received the Enrico Fermi Award from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1957, and was the first recipient of the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy in 1958.

He presented General of the Army Douglas MacArthur the Sylvanus Thayer Award in 1962, which was the occasion of MacArthur's famous Duty, Honor, Country speech to the United States Military Academy Corps of Cadets in 1962.

Before that season, Brynn Thayer departed from the series and Leanne was never heard from again.

* " Elmo ", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, a large elm that " once defined the Thayer Street entrance to Brown ’ s new Watson Institute for International Studies ," contracted Dutch Elm disease and was torn down in December 2003, according to a campus news release.

He was awarded the Medal of Freedom and the Sylvanus Thayer Award in 1959.

At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Thayer County is represented by the prefix 32 ( it had the thirty-second-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

Thayer County was formed in 1872.

It was named after the General and Governor John Milton Thayer.

The area was already home to Lucy Stone, Eli Thayer, and Samuel May, Jr.

The cast was Tom Aldredge ( Norman Thayer Jr .), Frances Sternhagen ( Ethel Thayer ), Ronn Carroll ( Charlie Martin ), Barbara Andres ( Chelsea Thayer Wayne ), Mark Bendo ( Billy Ray ), and Stan Lachow ( Bill Ray ).

* Nate Thayer ( Visiting Scholar )-Investigative journalist who interviewed Pol Pot and Kang Kek Iew

* Nate Thayer, American journalist who interviewed Pol Pot

Thayer persuaded journalist Hunter S. Thompson to create the original artwork for the album cover.

Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.

Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886 – 88.

In the mid-1890s, Thayer contributed several other comic poems for Hearst's New York Journal and then turned to overseeing his family's mills in Worcester full-time.

He created popular magazines about the navy, arranged for Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which argued the importance of naval forces, to be translated into German and serialised in newspapers, arranged rallies in support and invited politicians and industrialists to naval reviews.

Daniel Roebuck joined Thayer as a new regular for the seventh season, playing the role of ne ' er-do-well Cliff Lewis who seemed to bounce around from job to job.

* Leanne MacIntyre ( Brynn Thayer ) – Ben's older daughter who works for her father after Michelle's departure ( 1992 – 1994 )

Andy Griffith, Linda Purl, Kene Holliday, Nancy Stafford, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Brynn Thayer, Julie Sommars, Kari Lizer, Daniel Roebuck and Carol Huston were all featured in the intros for their seasons.

Other programs include dual-degree programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst ; the Frances Perkins Program, for women over the age of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree ; and the Postbaccalaureate Studies Program, for students who have already earned an undergraduate degree and wish to complete additional course work in preparation for graduate work in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry, or physical therapy science.

* City Manager is David A. Thayer, who was arrested for allegedly leaking social security numbers.

A subsequent election for mayor ( held in Thayer Hall ) resulted in Mayor George F. Thayer.

The textile industry arrived in 1824, when Gardner Nichols and Russell Thayer bought the existing mills and began to operate them for carding of wool ; fulling, coloring and finishing of cloth ; and manufacture of textile machinery.

The following year the community received a post office at the residence of A. D. Thayer on Hangman Creek ( now Latah Creek ), where it remained for five years.

About a slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, " Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for some years one of the more prolific composers of light and pleasing music, and one of the best and most popular teachers in Vienna.

Influenced by the American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Ratzel wrote of aspirations for German naval reach, agreeing that sea power was self-sustaining, as the profit from trade would pay for the merchant marine, unlike land power.

* Tulane has several academic and research institutes and centers including The Murphy Institute, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, The Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the Law School's Payson Center for International Development.