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 ).

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.

General Sylvanus Thayer, the " Father of West Point " was also born in Braintree in the section of town now known as Braintree Highlands.

Alfred Thayer Mahan was born in West Point, New York, to Dennis Hart Mahan ( a professor at the United States Military Academy ) and Mary Helena Mahan.

* William Greenough Thayer ( 1863 – 1934 ), educator, born in New Brighton

Michael " Max " Thayer ( born June 18, 1946 ) is an American movie actor.

Thayer David ( born David Thayer Hersey, March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978 ) was a film, stage and television actor.

Thayer David was born March 4, 1927, in Medford, Massachusetts.

Avis Howard Thayer ( born September 18, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was the daughter of George Thayer and Gertrude Wheeler.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd ( June 21, 1820 – November 17, 1894 ), son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer, was an American Presbyterian Theologian born in Acton, Massachusetts.

Joseph Henry Thayer ( November 7, 1828 — November 26, 1901 ), US biblical scholar, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Thomas Cunningham Thayer ( born November 7, 1960 ) is an American musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist for the American hard rock band Kiss, as well as the former lead guitarist for the band Black ' n Blue.

Thayer was born on November 7, 1960 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in the nearby suburbs of Beaverton, Oregon.

Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney.

On October 14, 1896, he married Eliza Frothingham Davis, ( January 17, 1871-June 20, 1907 ), and then remarried Susan Thayer ( born October 1, 1885 ) on June 1, 1912 in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

His child by the second marriage was Eugen Thayer, born Boston, March 19, 1913.

Scofield Thayer was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on 12 December 1889 to Edward D. Thayer and Florence Scofield Thayer.

Thomas " Tom " Allen Thayer ( born August 16, 1961 in Joliet, Illinois ) is a former American-football center / guard.