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unusual facts about John McCarthy


Saint Francis Red Flash football

John McCarthy (1916-1998) College football All-American in 1941 at Saint Francis University and played in the NFL 1944-1944


Anthony Grey

In the late 1980s Grey's experience as a political hostage led him to found Hostage Action Worldwide, which worked for the release of other political hostages, in particular John McCarthy, Brian Keenan, Terry Waite and others held by Islamic groups in the Middle East.

Blind Flight

It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis.

Matthew McCarthy

He is the brother of deceased Port Adelaide player John McCarthy.

Neats vs. scruffies

The distinction was originally made by Roger Schank in the mid-1970s to characterize the difference between his work on natural language processing (which represented commonsense knowledge in the form of large amorphous semantic networks) from the work of John McCarthy, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, Robert Kowalski and others whose work was based on logic and formal extensions of logic.


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Frank Hotaling

His association with famed director John Ford led to an Oscar nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Jr. and Charles S. Thompson, for Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Color, for 1952's The Quiet Man.

International Institute for Young Musicians

Professors from 2007 included Charles Asche, Greg Knowles, Robert Koenig, John McCarthy, Lynda Metelsky, Marietta Orlov, Leonard Richter, Ronald Shinn, Claire Wachter, Jack Winerock, Fei Xu and the widely acclaimed Trio Fedele.

Zoey Van Goey

Zoey Van Goey are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, made up of Matt Brennan, Michael John McCarthy, Kim Moore and Adam Scott.