Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

Hank Williams III's bass players ( Joe Buck and Zach Shedd, most notably ) have used upright basses for recording as well as during the country and Hellbilly sets of Hank III's live performances before switching to electric bass for the Assjack set.

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

This philosophy did not work well for Teamster presidents Beck, Hoffa, and Williams who were all accused of criminal acts and sent to prison.

The most well known of the Tribulation Saints include Rayford Steele, Chloe Steele, Cameron " Buck " Williams and Bruce Barnes.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

Williams was well known for representing Watergate figures as well as major Mafia figures including Frank Costello.

During the 1999 NFL Draft, Ditka traded all of his picks for that season, as well as the first-round and third-round picks for the following season, to the Washington Redskins in order to draft University of Texas Heisman Trophy running back Ricky Williams in the first round.

Williams had played extremely well in his five regular season games, passing for 1, 156 yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions.

Williams ' age ( 37-42 ) was well past the prime of most hitters, but he still managed to hit. 388 at the age of 39.

After his death, her sons filed suit to recover her furniture from Williams ' condominium as well as a half-interest in the condominium they claimed he gave her.

Among the many baseball players ( including well known stars ) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial ( in 1945 ), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.

When the single was released in late 2002, it became Williams ' biggest international hit, going number one in countries like The Netherlands and Italy, as well as reaching the top ten in almost every single European country.

He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams ' Un tram che si chiama desiderio ( A Streetcar Named Desire ), as well as in As You Like It ( by Shakespeare ) and Oreste ( by Vittorio Alfieri ).

At Mizzou, Williams joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, but he did not seem to have fit in well with his fraternity brothers.

Merlo, who became Williams ' personal secretary, taking on most of the details of their domestic life, provided a period of happiness and stability as well as a balance to the playwright's frequent bouts with depression and the fear that, like his sister Rose, he would fall into insanity.

When his sister Rose died in 1996 after many years in a mental institution, she bequeathed $ 7 million from her part of the Williams estate to The University of the South as well.

The popularity of the Julian and Sandy characters played by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick ensured that this secret language became public property, and the gay liberationists of the 1970s viewed it as rather degrading, divisive and politically incorrect as it was often used to gossip about, or criticise, others, as well as to discuss sexual exploits.

Ad-libs were a prominent part of the sketch, and were one of the reasons for how well the humour worked, as both Paddick and Williams were accomplished and very familiar with Polari in real life conversation.

In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role ( Daphne Whitethigh ), as well as Lady Counterblast ( née Clissold ), Buttercup Gruntfuttock ( wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams ), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others.

By the time of his resignation, Wilson's own perceptions of any threat may very well have been exacerbated by the onset of Alzheimer's disease ; his inherent tendency to chariness was undoubtedly stoked by some in his inner circle, including Marcia Williams.

Colored fellow named Tim Williams -- only hand she has working for her now.

It was at one of these in 1952 he became acquainted with fellow exhibitor Margaret Wynnfred Williams ( 1917-March 10, 1993 ), nicknamed Garé.

" He was disillusioned with the glory of death in combat after being mortally wounded while fighting the Headless Monks at the Battle of Demons Run, though, and he firmly corrected fellow nurse Rory Williams when the Doctor's companion called him a warrior, telling him, " I'm a nurse.

Williams was fond of fellow Carry On regulars Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw.

In response Williams was sent to England by his fellow citizens to secure a charter for the colony.

Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors, a fellow mercenary and love interest ; Lando Calrissian ( voiced by Billy Dee Williams ), the sophisticated baron-administrator of Cloud City seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ; and Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original film trilogy and leader of the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.

His early works show the influence of Grieg, Wagner, Richard Strauss and fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, and later, through Vaughan Williams, the music of Ravel.

He attended the Royal College of Music on a scholarship, where he studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford and where in 1895 he met fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, who became a lifelong friend.

Williams was widely seen as being in over his head and was an easy target for his NHL colleagues, who called him " Jed Clampett " behind his back because of his thick Southern accent and fundamentalist Christian views ( unlike most of his fellow owners, Williams did not smoke, drink or curse ).

Mary Lou Williams, among others, spoke of Monk's rich inventiveness in this period, and how such invention was vital for musicians since at the time it was common for fellow musicians to incorporate overheard musical ideas into their own works without giving due credit.

When fellow astronaut Clifton Williams was killed in an air crash, a space was opened for Bean on the back-up crew for Apollo 9.

In 1780, Van Wart and fellow militiamen John Paulding and David Williams captured the British spy Major John André, a crucial informant to Benedict Arnold.

A number of fellow poets and professors of literature ( including Oliver Elton, Charles Williams and Una Ellis-Fermor ) admired the sublimity of his themes and his ability to clothe metaphysical thought in vivid imagery.

Sims, like her fellow Carry On star Kenneth Williams, never married.

These include Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, whose cult fame has not led to financial success, as well as the 2CD Orphans of God, a tribute to Mark Heard, a singer / songwriter whose work has been praised by fellow artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett.

In the episode " Take This Poem and Call Me In The Morning ", he appeared as Omar, a slam poet who competes with fellow poet Sivad ( played by Saul Williams ) for the affection of Lynn Searcy ( played by Persia White ).

When he received word about his election it was via telephone call from fellow Hall member Ted Williams.

In 2011, the U. S. Postal Service announced that Doby would be one of the four baseball players ( along with fellow Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, and Willie Stargell ) to appear on a postage stamp in 2012, as part of its " Major League Baseball All-Stars " series.

On November 10, 2010, Lake joined fellow talkers Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael, Geraldo Rivera, and Montel Williams as guests of Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Upon his return, Williams joined forces with fellow RB John Avery to deliver a late-season one-two punch out of the backfield.

As an artist and producer Spyder shared the 80s musical spotlight with fellow Hollis natives Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Davy D, Hurricane, Orange Krush and Alyson Williams.

Garnet married Julia Williams, whom he had met as a fellow student at the Noyes Academy.

Along with David Ruffin, Otis Williams ( no relation ), and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin, Williams was a member of The Temptations during the " Classic Five " period.