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David C. Fields

Harry W. Porter III served as Acting Director of the Office of Foreign Missions from July 1992 to May 1993 until Eric J. Boswell assumed the office.


Baba Faqir Chand

This was termed the 'Chandian Effect', and described by researcher David C. Lane.

Baby LeRoy

He is best known for his appearances in three W. C. Fields films: Tillie and Gus (1933), The Old Fashioned Way (1934) and It's a Gift (1934).

Bendix G-15

David C. Evans was one of the Bendix engineers on the G-15 project.

Byron Darnton

While author Leo Rosten is usually credited with the popular phrase “No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad,” used by him to describe comedian W. C. Fields, Darnton was in fact the first to use this phrase regarding an unknown man named Gastonbury.

Craig Steven Wilder

He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, under the tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and Eric Foner.

David C. Dolby

Dolby died at age 64 on the morning of August 6, 2010, while visiting Spirit Lake, Idaho, for a veterans' gathering.

David C. Johnson

In the early 1970s, Johnson joined the Oeldorf Group, a musicians' cooperative, with Peter Eötvös, Mesías Maiguashca, Gaby Schumacher (cello) and Joachim Krist (viola), who organized a Summer Night Music series.

Performances were held in the barn attached to the group's farmhouse in Oeldorf, near Kürten (Kurtz 1992, 200).

In 1966–67 he was an independent collaborator at the Electronic Studio of the WDR, where he assisted Karlheinz Stockhausen with the production of his electronic work Hymnen.

David C. Knapp

He left both posts in 1968 to accept an appointment as dean of the New York State College of Home Economics.

David C. Lindberg

He also served as President of the History of Science Society and, in 1999, was recipient of its highest prize for lifetime scholarly achievement: the Sarton medal.

David C. Nichols

He served as Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) and Combined Air Operations Center Director at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, from November 2001 through March 2002 during Operation Enduring Freedom.

David C. Stark

Restructuring Networks in Postsocialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities (Co-editor with Gernot Grabher), London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Stark won the 2009 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association for his paper, “Social Times of Network Spaces” (with Balazs Vedres), which appeared in American Journal of Sociology (2006).

David C. Stuart

Stuart also served as producer on the MAC release Washington Heights, with Bobby Cannavale and David Zayas, Calling it Quits with Dennis Boutsikaris and Jessica Hecht, and Screen Door Jesus, winner of the Golden Starfish Award at the Hampton's International Film Festival.

David C. Turnley

In addition to publishing numerous books,he has directed an Emmy-nominated documentary for CNN on the Dalai Lama, and a feature length documentary set in Cuban dance hall, "La Tropical".

A fluent speaker of French and Spanish, he is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has studied at the Sorbonne and Harvard University.

David Chapman

David C. Chapman (1876–1944), led initiative to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

David Lane

David C. Lane (born 1956), American professor of philosophy and critic of certain new religious movements

David Montgomery

David C. Montgomery (died 1917), American comedic actor, straight man half of the pair Montgomery & Stone, with Fred Stone

Devil and the Deep

However, in the following year's film version of Alice in Wonderland, Grant played the Mock Turtle and Cooper played the White Knight, having their only movie scene together (of sorts) as the entire cast appears in the tea party scene (including W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty).

Epworth League

In the 1934 W. C. Fields movie It's a Gift, when Amelia Bissonette tells her husband Harold that his Uncle Bean has died, she says, "It seemed he was getting better, but he attended the Epworth League picnic, and he choked to death eating an orange."

Global Franchise Group

August 2007: Pretzel Time and Pretzelmaker, two franchised brands in the hand rolled pretzel category, acquired from Mrs. Fields.

Grace Bradley

During her career she co-starred opposite such notable figures as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Alice Faye, Bruce Cabot, William Bendix, Fred MacMurray, Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, and W.C. Fields.

Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge

The bridge was dedicated by Governor David C. Treen and Bishop Stanley Ott of Baton Rouge and opened to traffic on October 8, 1983 connecting Louisiana Highway 18 on the West Bank and Louisiana Highway 48 on the East Bank.

Hot Sam Pretzels

Located mainly in malls, the chain was acquired by Mrs. Fields in 1995.

J. M. Fields

Many former J.M. Fields locations in the Northeast became either Kmart, Jefferson Ward (later Bradlees), or Caldor stores.

James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art

Over the years the Colloquium's presenters have included leaders in the field, such as David C. Driskell, Ann Gibson, Leslie King Hammond, Samella Lewis, Lowery Stokes Sims, Deborah Willis and Judith Wilson.

Mike Nappa

He has also served as a fiction acquisitions editor for Barbour Publishing, as a general acquisitions editor (fiction and non-fiction) for David C. Cook publishers, and as Editor in Chief of the short-lived Destination Magazine (published by Private Escapes Luxury Destination Clubs).

Nancy Wesley

In 2002, food franchisor Mrs. Fields teamed up with Days of our Lives and charity Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to host a cookie bake off.

Norman Z. McLeod

Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W. C. Fields, and the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Paleface starring Bob Hope (1948).

Oeldorf Group

They were closely associated with the Cologne-based Feedback Studio, consisting of David C. Johnson, Johannes Fritsch, and Rolf Gehlhaar (Montague 1991, 197; Kurtz 1992, 200).

Owen O'Neill

Early comic influences included W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and particularly Richard Pryor: "It was also poignant and heartfelt and I realised then that stand-up could be an art-form".

Religion of Humanity

In India Baba Faqir Chand established Manavta Mandir (Temple of Humanity) to spread his religion of humanity with scientific attitude as explained by David C. Lane in a book 'The Unknowing Sage'.

Stephen J. Windhorst

In the nonpartisan blanket primary, also known as the jungle primary, held on November 16, 1991, Windhorst upset and unseated fellow Republican Representative Terry W. Gee, who had served since 1980, beginning with the gubernatorial term of Governor David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish.

Supermarket Superstar

The panel of judges (who are referred to as mentors on the show) the contestants must face are Debbi Fields of Mrs. Fields Bakeries, Chris Cornyn of DINE, and Chiarello himself.

Synalpheus regalis

Queller and Strassmann (1998) distinguished between "life insurers", which include most Hymenoptera, where cooperation reduces the risk of total reproductive failure, and "fortress defenders", where cooperation enhances the defense of a commonly held, valuable resource.

The Drunkard

In 1934, a production of The Drunkard was featured to comic effect in the W. C. Fields film The Old Fashioned Way.

The Man of Adamant

It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields.

Thomas C. Fields

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

Tree of Knowledge System

David C. Geary noted the similarities between his "Motivation-to-Control" hypothesis and Henriques' Behavioral Investment Theory, which were developed independently of each other.

William J. Fields

In September 1923, Democratic gubernatorial nominee J. Campbell Cantrill died, leaving the party without a candidate.

When Democratic gubernatorial nominee J. Campbell Cantrill died unexpectedly two months before the general election, the Democratic Central Committee chose Fields to replace Cantrill as the nominee.

William K. Everson

His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).

WMUB

In January 2007, University President David C. Hodge charged a committee to explore alternatives to address budgetary and technological challenges for WMUB.

You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me! is a 1934 comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring W. C. Fields; this film is a remake of his earlier silent film So's Your Old Man (1926), and both films are adapted from the story Mr. Bisbee’s Princess by Julian Leonard Street.


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