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Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Other influential teachers of gun safety include Massad Ayoob, Clint Smith, Chuck Taylor, Jim Crews, Bob Munden and Ignatius Piazza.
* 1901 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman ( d. 1969 )
Shoes specific to the sport of basketball were developed by Chuck Taylor, and are popularly known as Chuck Taylor All-Stars.
Fullbacks Chuck Mercein and Ben Wilson, who were signed as free agents after being discarded by many other teams, were also used to help compensate for the loss of Hornung and Taylor.
In 1960, when Richards, on his way to class at Sidcup Art College, and Jagger, on his way to class at London School of Economics, met at Dartford train station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger carried revealed a mutual interest, leading to the re-establishment of their friendship and the formation of a band with Dick Taylor ( later of Pretty Things ).
* June 23 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman ( died 1969 )
After a number of years performing with local California bands and folk trios like Good Shepherd, Judge Rainbow and the Prophetic Trumpets, The Cardboard Scheme, and The Scarlet Staircase, Taylor formed Jubal's Last Band with Steve Baxter, Kenny Paxton, and Chuck Starnes in 1972.
The style of these resembles the Chuck Taylor All-Stars brand name, considered to be the " generic " or " standard " basketball sneaker.
* Chuck Taylor, professional wrestler
* Chuck Taylor ( pro wrestling )-Professional Wrestler
Preferred footwear included military boots, motorcycle boots, brothel creepers, Puma Clydes ( suede ), Chuck Taylor All-Stars and later, Dr. Martens boots.
Other notable disc jockeys who worked at WLS include Fred Winston, Art Roberts, Ron " Ringo " Riley, Gene Taylor, Mort Crowley, Larry Lujack, Dex Card, Clark Weber, Chuck Buell, Kris Erik Stevens, Joel Sebastian, Gary Gears, Jerry Kay, Bob Sirott, John Records Landecker, Yvonne Daniels, Steve Dahl, Garry Meier, Brant Miller, Steve King, and Tommy Edwards.
Going into the final round, Taylor held a secure lead on the scorecards of two of the three judges, ( Dave Moretti and Jerry Roth had the score 107-102 and 108-101 respectively for Taylor, while Chuck Giampa had Chávez ahead 105-104 ), and the sense for everyone watching was that Chávez would have to knock Taylor out to claim a victory, whereas Taylor merely needed to stay away from the Mexican legend.
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The album features a number of guest vocalists ( including Lemmy, Chuck D, Corey Taylor, Ice-T, Tom Araya, Rancid and others ) singing Black Flag's songs.
Then in 1921, a basketball player named Charles H. " Chuck " Taylor walked into Converse complaining of sore feet.
Red Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe

Chuck and All
In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.
Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including " The Memphis Blues " by W. C. Handy, " Memphis, Tennessee " by Chuck Berry, " Night Train to Memphis " by Roy Acuff, " Goin ' to Memphis " by Paul Revere and the Raiders, " Queen of Memphis " by Confederate Railroad, " Memphis Soul Stew " by King Curtis, " Maybe It Was Memphis " by Pam Tillis, " Graceland " by Paul Simon, " Memphis Train " by Rufus Thomas, " All the Way from Memphis " by Mott the Hoople, " Wrong Side of Memphis " by Trisha Yearwood, " Walking in Memphis " by Marc Cohn, " Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again " by Bob Dylan, " Memphis Skyline " by Rufus Wainwright, and " Sequestered in Memphis " by The Hold Steady.
He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.
Chuck Mangione's compositions include " Feels So Good ", " Children of Sanchez ", " The Cannonball Run ", " Hide and Seek ", " Hill Where the Lord Hides ", " Fun and Games ", " Give It All You Got ", " Land of Make Believe ", " Bellavia ", " Main Squeeze ", " Love Notes ", " Steppin ' Out ", " I Never Missed Someone Before ", " Maui-Waui ", " Last Dance ", " El Gato Triste ", and " Chase the Clouds Away ".
For decades the Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe only came in black, with a white variant released in 1947.
In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.
Towards the end of the month, when all parties were due to meet in New York for rehearsals, Harrison had the commitment of a backing band comprising Billy Preston ( on keyboards ), Badfinger ( on acoustic rhythm guitars and tambourine, repeating their All Things Must Pass roles ), Klaus Voormann ( bass ), Jim Keltner ( drums ) and Jim Horn ’ s so-called “ Hollywood Horns ”, including Chuck Findley, Jackie Kelso and Lou McCreary.
* " Chuck Brown: Go-Go Godfather's Gumbo ", All Things Considered, 10 May 2006
[...] All Chuck Norris backwards gets you is Sirron Kcuhc!
The U. S. market for sneakers grew steadily as young boys lined up to buy sneakers endorsed by football player Jim Thorpe and Converse All Stars endorsed by basketball player Chuck Taylor.
Solos can take place in the intro, such as " Voodoo Child ( Slight Return )" by Jimi Hendrix, " Since I've Been Loving You " by Led Zeppelin, " One " by Metallica, " Lazy " by Deep Purple, " I Want It All " by Queen, " Johnny B. Goode " by Chuck Berry, " Don't Take Me Alive " by Steely Dan, " Raised on Rock by the Scorpions and " Wish You Were Here " by Pink Floyd.
The youths on All My Children were Tara Martin ( Karen Lynn Gorney ), Phillip Brent ( Richard Hatch ), Chuck Tyler ( Jack Stauffer ), and Erica Kane ( Susan Lucci ).
She guest-starred in The Penguins of Madagascar as Chuck Charles's co-anchor, Bonnie Chang, in " Gator Watch " and " All Tied Up With a Boa ".
King, Bill Doggett, Golden " Big " Wheeler, Billy Branch, Bo Diddley, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Bobby Rush, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Calvin Jones, Carey Bell, Carl Perkins, Chicago Blues Museum All Stars, Barrelhouse Chuck, Chuck Berry, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Dave Myers, Dion Payton, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Vinson, Eddy Clearwater, Etta James, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Jones, Fontella Bass, Hank Ballard, Henry Townsend, Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jody Williams, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Taylor, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Keith Richards, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Little Willie Littlefield, Lonnie Brooks, Lowell Fulson, Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, The Ice Cream Men, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis " Big Smokey " Smothers, Snooky Pryor, Son Seals, Lacy Gibson, Staple Singers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Sunnyland Slim, Taildragger, Taj Mahal, Willie Buck, Willie Dixon, Yank Rachell, Lil ' Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials, and Johnny B. Moore.
He played the role of Dr. Chuck Tyler on All My Children from 1975 to 1984, from 1989 to 1992, and again in 1995 and 2005 ; and as Dr. Ed Bauer on Guiding Light from 1984 to 1986.
* " Up All Night " ( The Adventures of Chuck and Friends )
All disc jockeys at KOMA were told to draw their on-air names out of a hat, and by the time Chuck Riley picked his on-air name out of a hat, every name had been drawn except for " Charlie Tuna.
All three had previously been together in a thrash metal band called Psi. Kore that had been founded by Lamb's brother Chuck, guitarist Adam Boyle and bassist Lex Dourian in 1996 ; Lamb had joined in 1997 and Webster took Dourian's place in late 1998.
All five hosts also participated in playing the game along with other hosts such as Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen and Chuck Woolery.
The performers were The Doors, Plastic Ono Band ( Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Eric Clapton, with Klaus Voormann and Alan White ), Bo Diddley, Chicago Transit Authority ( later renamed " Chicago "), Tony Joe White, Alice Cooper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Gene Vincent, Junior Walker & the All Stars, Little Richard, Doug Kershaw, Screaming Lord Sutch, Nucleus, Milkwood, and Whiskey Howl.

Chuck and Star
Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near his Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with it.
In early 1967, a group of six investors ( among them attorney Richard Tinkham, John DeVoe, Chuck DeVoe, sports agent Chuck Barnes and Indianapolis Star sports writer Bob Collins ) pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association.
* Yvonne Strahovski – Star of US TV Series Chuck
( which features his Star Trek: Voyager co-star Tim Russ ) and then signed on as a producer-director of the NBC show Chuck, helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a TV show to be broadcast entirely in 3D.
* In an episode of Chuck, " Fear of Death ", Agent Rye ( Rob Riggle ) uses something similar to knock out a guard, then jokes he learned it from Star Trek.
1973-The Red Star Saloon ( connected to the Barracks ) ( which featured new artwork by Chuck Arnett ), the End Up ( not a leather bar but a dance bar ; however, many leather people who liked to dance went there ), Folsom Prison, The Ambush, Big Town — a gay leather shopping mall on the south side of Folsom between 6th and 7th Streets 1975-Hombre, The Catacombs ( for those into hard core fisting ), The Emporium.
Other notable television roles include portrayals of an alcoholic college professor in ABC's drama Channing, as General George Custer on Chuck Connors's NBC series Branded, as Gil Green in the 1963 episode " Fear Begins at Forty " on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, as General Frank Savage for the first season of ' Twelve O ' Clock High, in a 1965 episode of I Spy, 1965 Gunsmoke as a bounty hunter, as a parole officer in a 1968 episode ( A Time to Love-A Time to Cry ) of The Mod Squad, and as interstellar secret agent Gary Seven in a 1968 episode " Assignment: Earth " on Star Trek.
Writers who worked at the Star in its last days included Nick Adde ( Army Times ), Stephen Aug ( ABC News ), Michael Isikoff ( Newsweek ), Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post ), Fred Hiatt ( The Washington Post ) Sheilah Kast ( ABC News ), Jane Mayer ( The New Yorker ), Chris Hanson ( Columbia Journalism Review ), Jeremiah O ' Leary ( The Washington Times ), Chuck Conconi ( Washingtonian ), Crispin Sartwell ( Creators Syndicate ), Maureen Dowd ( The New York Times ), novelist Randy Sue Coburn, Michael DeMond Davis, Lance Gay, ( Scripps Howard News Service ): Jules Witcover ( The Baltimore Sun ), Jack Germond ( The Baltimore Sun ), Judy Bachrach ( Vanity Fair ), Lyle Denniston ( The Baltimore Sun ), Fred Barnes ( Weekly Standard ), Kate Sylvester ( NPR, NBC, Governing Magazine ) and Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post ).
The Bravo channels closed on 1 January 2011, with its most popular programmes moved to other Sky channels including Spartacus: Blood and Sand ( now on Sky1 ), Chuck ( now on Sky Living ), Leverage, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Star Trek, TNA Wrestling ( now on Challenge ), Sun, Sea and A & E, Motorway Patrol, Highway Patrol, Brit Cops and Caribbean Cops.
Dratch has appeared in several movies, including Martin & Orloff, The Hebrew Hammer, Down with Love, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Spring Breakdown, and My Life in Ruins.
In 1996, Waronker scored Miguel Arteta's movie Star Maps, followed by Chuck & Buck in 2000 and The Good Girl in 2002.
In 1923, after Chuck Taylor made improvements to the shoe, Converse decided to incorporate his name onto the ankle patch that displayed the Converse All Star logo.
Then, in the 1930s Taylor ’ s signature was put into the design, which is how the shoe became known as theChuck TaylorAll Star.
Today, Converse makes the Chuck Taylor All Star in a variety of colors, styles, prints and fabrics.
Originally an elite basketball shoe, the Chuck Taylor All Star evolved into the shoe of choice for many subcultures.
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Cross was cast in guest roles on such series as The X-Files, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, Highlander: The Series, Relic Hunter, The 4400, Higher Ground, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Chuck.

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