In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;

The next speaker was George T. Day.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

A customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode.

However, Barron proved ill at ease in the moderator's seat, so both Fred Davis and panelist Alex Barris rotated as guest hosts in the early part of the fall before Davis was chosen to take over as host full-time ( a position he retained for the rest of the show's run ), though Barris continued to appear as a guest panelist occasionally.

Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Barris was promoted to the daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was put in charge of deciding which game shows ABC would air.

Interviewed on the NPR program " Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me " on August 1, 2009, Barris said that the Newlywed Game was the easiest program he had developed: " All I needed was four couples, eight questions, and a washer-dryer.

As with some of Barris ' other projects ( including The Newlywed Game ), it was at one point possible to see The Gong Show twice daily, a relatively uncommon feat in the years prior to cable TV's expansion into the commercial market.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

Dubbed " Chuckie Baby " by his fans, Barris was a perfect fit with the show's goofy, sometimes wild amateur performers and its panel of three judges ( including regulars Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan and Arte Johnson ).

Its storyline and approach, though including a number of GS segments, was a bit less " zany " ( another favorite Barris phrase ) than some audiences may have expected.

During the winter of 1980, Barris attempted to rebuild by bringing back another game show that was not an original of his, Camouflage, in which contestants answered questions for the chance to locate a " hidden object " ( such as a toaster ) concealed within a cartoon-type drawing.

After a year's inactivity, Barris revived Treasure Hunt again in 1981 in partnership with the original 1950s version's producer, Budd Granoff, who had become his business partner ( the show itself was created by its original host, Jan Murray ).

Chuck Barris sold his shares of Barris Industries, Inc. in 1987 to Burt Sugarman and left to move back to France and was no longer directly involved in his media company.

On September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed as the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.

Barris ' uncle was singer / songwriter / actor Harry Barris.

Barris ' first wife was Lyn Levy, the niece of one of the founders of CBS.

One of the leading producers to do this was Chuck Barris, whose game shows were designed mainly to entertain the audience, as well as play for prizes.

DeLugg also wrote the theme music for other Barris projects including The $ 1. 98 Beauty Show, Camouflage ( where, in a throwback to an earlier era of game shows, the music was actually performed live by DeLugg and his band ), Leave It to The Women, Three's a Crowd, and The New Treasure Hunt.

The tune was written by Chuck Barris, before his days as a pioneering TV game show producer.

Outside of " She Loves You ", Swan's most remembered hit was Palisades Park in 1962, written by Chuck Barris, and performed by the most successful artist on the label, Freddy Cannon, who also scored hits with " Tallahassee Lassie " and " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans " before moving to Warner Brothers in 1964.

For season one, Jamie Whitney was the director, and all 39 episodes were written by Kate Barris and Paddy Granleese.

Early punk fashion adapted everyday objects for aesthetic effect: ripped clothing was held together by safety pins or wrapped with tape ; ordinary clothing was customised by embellishing it with marker or adorning it with paint ; a black bin liner became a dress, shirt or skirt ; safety pins and razor blades were used as jewellery.

The building was already known for having featured in the cover shot of a 1980s pictorial biography of 1960s ' mods, featuring them on their customised scooters outside the then Camberwell Labour Exchange.

The guitar was customised with the Danzig skull symbol, and is currently on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando.

" Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang the car was based on a composite of two cars: Fleming's own Standard Tourer, which he had driven in Switzerland in the late 1920s, and Chitty Bang Bang, a chain-driven customised Mercedes with a 23-litre 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine.

FACT was reserved for full-length albums, while FAC was used for both single song releases, and many other Factory " productions ", including: posters ( FAC 1 advertised a club night ), The Haçienda ( FAC 51 ), a hairdressing salon ( FAC 98 ), a broadcast of Channel 4's The Tube ( FAC 104 ), customised packing tape ( FAC 136 ), a bucket on a restored watermill ( FAC 148 ), the Haçienda cat ( FAC 191 ), a bet between Wilson and Gretton ( FAC 253 ), a lawsuit filed against Factory Records by Martin Hannett ( FAC 61 ), and a radio advertisement ( FAC 294 ).

ISPF is designed to be customised for each user ( a fairly new concept in 1974, when it was introduced ).

Instead, production of the 940s was turned over to the Systems Engineering Department, which manufactured systems customised to user requirements.

The main feature of his operation was a customised still of his own design — or rather Stein ’ s design with a minor modification.

As part of Jeep's advertising campaign, it was specially customised for the film by Jeep's design team along with Cradle of Life production designers, with three copies constructed for filming.

In December 1971 the Ison Brothers ' Wild Honey ' Dragster ( 164 ) was released which was a fully customised ' gasser ' based on a 1930s Austin Seven saloon.

The crime fighting car ' Black Beauty ' ( 268 )-a George Barris customised 1965 Chrysler Imperial Crown sedan, included an operational satellite launcher inside the boot and a rocket fired from behind the grill, and was featured in the American television series The Green Hornet.

The ' Monkeemobile ' ( 277 ) issued in December was a Dean Jeffries 1966 Pontiac GTO, again customised by George Barris, taken from the American television series The Monkees which featured miniature models of the band sitting in the car.

Farrar purchased a 1969 Fender thinline Telecaster and customised it with Gibson Humbucking pickups and a Bigsby Palm Pedal Stringbender unit to which was added a third lever, whereas Marvin purchased a new Fender Stratocaster guitar with a sunburst finish with non-Fender custom pickups and a large headstock.

The logical extension was to include LaTeX documentation, customised hints in form of HTML pages, and other software packages such as gnuplot and StarOffice ( which was not exactly Free Software, a special license from Sun Microsystems was obtained for the occasion ).

A 2 + 2 convertible was also introduced, as was a customised insignia line.

In FRES UV it was envisaged that a further role, that of the " vehicle integrator ", would be required to ensure that the vehicles are customised to meet British Army requirements and be supported and upgraded through life.

The Wheel of Time was somewhat unique among contemporary CCG's, because the game required a play mat with tokens and customised six-sided dice to play it.

Based on the look of a customised chopper motorcycle, made popular with films such as Easy Rider, the Chopper bike was the " must have " item and signifier of " coolness " for many children at the time.