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3 unusual facts about Howard W. Koch


Howard Koch

Howard W. Koch (1916–2001), American film and TV director, producer

Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back

Directed by Marty Pasetta and produced by Howard W. Koch Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back was a glowing success made all the more memorable by a special appearance from Gene Kelly who had first co-starred with Sinatra 30 years prior in Anchors Aweigh.

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.


Ambisagrus

John T. Koch has suggested that this Jovian epithet may originally have applied to Taranis, with allusion to the tendency of thunder near an observer to seem all-surrounding.

Bill Koch

William A. Koch (1915–2001), American businessman and theme-park developer

C. Markland Kelly

Appointed in 1935 by Baltimore Mayor Howard W. Jackson, Kelly, Sr. served for eight years on the Park Board, first as a member, then as president.

Captain goes down with the ship

February 7, 1943: Commander Howard W. Gilmore, captain of the American submarine USS Growler (SS-215), gave the order to "clear the bridge," as his crew was being attacked by a Japanese gunboat.

Carl C. Rasmussen

Rasmussen's predecessor, Howard W. Davis, had been the representative in the 7th almost continuously since 1927, but in February 1939, a grand jury, at the instigation of District Attorney Buron Fitts, voted 38 charges of misconduct against him.

Carl Friedrich Roewer

The Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft bought his extensive collection (including type material from other arachnologists such as L. Koch, Eugène Simon, Thorell, Philipp Bertkau and Friedrich Dahl) and his private library.

David J. Saposs

The AFL allied with anti-union Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith to attack the National Labor Relations Board.

David Koch

David H. Koch (born 1940), United States businessman and 1980 U.S. Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate

Dorothy Bush Koch

She has two children, Sam and Ellie, by her first husband, William LeBlond, whom she married in 1982 and divorced in 1990, and two children, Robert and Gigi, by her second husband, Robert P. Koch, whom she married in June 1992 at Camp David.

Ed Clark

Ed Clark's running mate in 1980 was David H. Koch of Koch Industries, who pledged part of his personal fortune to the campaign for the vice-presidential nomination, enabling the Clark/Koch ticket to largely self-fund and run national television advertising.

Foreign policy of Mobutu Sese Seko

French, Howard W. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.

Gobind Behari Lal

Lal shared the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting with John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee and David Dietz.

HK 4.6×30mm

The HK 4.6×30mm cartridge is a type of ammunition used in the Heckler & Koch MP7 Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) and by the canceled HK UCP pistol.

Howard Davis

Howard W. Davis (1885–1959), member of the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council

Howard E. Koch

The movie subsequently spawned controversy because of its positive portrayal of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union.

Howard French

Howard W. French (born 1957), American journalist, author and photographer

Howard Hunter

Howard W. Hunter (1907–1995), fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Howard Johnston

Howard W. Johnston (1913–2005), principal founder of the Free University of Berlin

Howard Riley

Howard W. Riley (1879–1971), professor of agricultural engineering at Cornell University

Howard W. Blake High School

Students of the theatre department have continued into university theatre or are working in LA and Broadway, such as Taylor Trensch who is on tour with Spring Awakening and Rachel Lee, a working actress in Hollywood who was recently an extra in Valentines Day.

Howard W. Davis

have conspired with . . . Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship . . . from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.

Davis's first bid for public office was in August 1923, when he cross-filed for the State Assembly in the 73rd District primary election.

Howard W. Gilmore

In the movie Operation Pacific, John Wayne's character as Executive Officer of USS Thunderfish orders Thunderfish submerged, leaving his wounded Commanding Officer (played by Ward Bond) on the bridge.

In the historical notes section epilogue of War and Remembrance (copyright 1978 by Herman Wouk, Library of Congress catalog Card Number 78-17746) Howard Gilmore is recognized by "The death of Carter Aster is based on the famous self-sacrifice of Commander Howard W. Gilmore of the U.S.S. Growler for which he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor"

Howard W. Hunter

On October 14, 2007 at her home in Laguna Hills, California, his wife, Inis Stanton Hunter, died of causes incident to age.

Hunter then began to study at Southwestern Law School and after graduating he had a successful career as a lawyer.

Howard W. Hunter Law Library

The Howard W. Hunter Law Library is the library of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah.

Howard W. Mattson

Hired by Executive Director Calvert L. Willey in 1973, Mattson would be named as Director of Public Information (called Vice President of Communications as of 2006).

John A. B. Koch

John Augustus Bernard Koch (1845-1928) was a Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) architect who practiced between 1869 and 1913.

John T. Koch

His works include The Celtic Heroic Age (first published in 1994, 4th edition in 2003), in collaboration with John Carey; The Gododdin of Aneirin (1997), an edition, translation and discussion of the early Welsh poem Y Gododdin; and numerous articles published in books and journals.

Julie Mehta

Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of Booker Prize winners and celebrated authors such as Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Norman Mailer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Christopher J. Koch and many others.

Nashville School of Law

The school's faculty members are some prominent practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Tennessee; formerly including the late former Tennessee Chief Justice Adolpho Birch, and now including current Justice William C. Koch, Jr. of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

National Association of Science Writers

In June 1934, John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz formed NASW as a press association with Dietz as its President.

St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church

The merger of the two was made after the former St. James Church property was chosen as the site for the new Blake High School.

Stephan W. Koch

(abbreviated as SLEs); the SLEs describe the quantum physics where quantum fluctuations of light initiate incoherent light emission from spontaneous recombination of Coulomb-coupled electron–hole pairs.

The Wages of Fear

Violent Road (aka Hell's Highway), directed by Howard W. Koch in 1958, and Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin in 1977, are American remakes.

Thomas Koch

Thomas F. Koch (born 1942), American politician who currently serves in the Vermont House of Representatives

Walt Langendorfer

More recently, the US Asymmetric Warfare Group purchased the Gas-OperatedHK 416, a M4/M16 type rifle made by Heckler & Koch using the short stroke gas piston system after intensive tests demonstrating the superiority of this system in adverse conditions (dust, sand, intensive use without maintenance)

We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

While preparing to speak at a CES fireside being held at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center on February 7, 1993, then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Howard W. Hunter was confronted by Cody Judy, who rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience of 15,000–17,000.

Werfen

After the archduke's assassination, the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty sold the castle to the German Krupp industrial magnates, it is today a private property of Frederick R. Koch.

William A. Koch

With so many projects going - seemingly all at once - Bill Koch discovered in the late 1950s that Indiana's segment of Interstate 64 was going to run from Vincennes to New Albany.

Following his death, and in recognition of the many developments he was responsible for, the state of Indiana named Indiana State Highway 162 from Gentryville to Interstate 64 as the "William A. Koch Memorial Highway."

William Koch

William A. Koch (1915–2001), developed what is today known as Holiday World and Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana


see also

Howard Koch

Hawk Koch (born 1945), American film producer, son of Howard W. Koch