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  Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Peters Hepburn was a Repbulican Representative for Iowa and author of the Hepburn Act of 1906.
Robert Hepburn was the writer of the Edinburgh Tatler and a member of the Faculty of Advocates.
Thomas Hepburn, was a miner and founder of Hepburn's Union, a trade union for miners across Northumberland and County Durham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hepburn   (736 words)

  
 BC Sports Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers, Doug was inducted as a Athlete in 1976.
Clement, Doug was inducted as a Builder in 2004.
Hepburn, Doug was inducted as a Athlete in 1966.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BC_Sports_Hall_of_Fame   (3237 words)

  
 DOUG IVAN HEPBURN
Doug Hepburn was born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, on September 16, 1926.
Doug Hepburn had built himself to world championship standards but remained largely unknown until Charles A. Smith, the prolific weight lifting writer for Weider mags, took a hand in the proceedings.
Doug felt the fundamental reason his records in the Olympic lifts were inferior to his power lifts was because of insufficient emphasis on the technique involved in cleaning and snatching, lack of condition due to the latter, overabundance of nonessential bodyweight, and a related lack of flexibility/speed of reflex and coordination.
www.naturalstrength.com /history/hepburn.html   (2155 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Doug Hepburn was born in Vancouver with a mild club (right) foot (caused by childhood polio) and a eye ailment (cross-eyed)..
Doug Hepburn was considered the Strongest Man in the World for a few years until Paul Anderson came along..
Doug Hepburn was pprobably the first man to unofficially bench press 500 pounds and once actually took a shot at 600..
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/d/doug-hepburn.html   (165 words)

  
 REVIEW
Hepburn went on to gold medals in weightlifting, first in 1953 at world championships in Stockholm and again in 1954 at the British Empire Games.
When men the likes of Joe Weider extolled Doug Hepburn as the world’s strongest man, they meant not just when they were talking, but of all time.
Hepburn even embarked on a career as a singer and recorded a Christmas song, which – I’m told – is still played on the radio seasonally in Canada.
mensightmagazine.com /reviews/Wadas/hepburn.htm   (587 words)

  
 DVDLaser: the largest database of DVD reviews on the web
Hepburn's singing isn't as slick, but she brings more performance and life to the number than the over-produced and homogenized voicing that Nixon provides.
Hepburn's rendition of Show Me --one of the best songs in the score--is a disaster, but who is to say that with a little more coaching she couldn't have improved upon it?).
Hepburn's lipstick is the perfect accentuation of flesh, and the precision of its tone and texture on the disc is enough to obliterate every flaw the movie has.
www.dvdlaser.com /cf/detail.cfm?ID=20512   (1518 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - The reluctant career of strongman Doug Hepburn
In the 1950s, Doug Hepburn was one of the most famous Canadians in the world, renowned for his weightlifting feats.
Hepburn was trained in a basement gym at Maple Leaf Gardens with Watson and Pat Frayley.
Hepburn died November 22, 2000 of a perforated stomach ulcer.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2005/12/09/1346332.html   (1877 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Unforgiven (1960) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Audrey Hepburn, the luminous Audrey Hepburn, plays the young woman was a foundling and now is the subject of an increasingly acrimonious dispute over her pedigree.
Doug McClure is their too as the young brother as is Audy Murphy as the hot headed jerk of the family.
Hepburn's stunned reaction appears to be absolutely genuine, as if Huston had altered the script and not told her about the change.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WZR2?v=glance   (2744 words)

  
 Direct Textbooks: Price Compare ISBN 1553800095 Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story by Tom Thurston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hepburn was to be admired for his feats of strength,but saddened at his personal life.
I thank Doug for his illumination as he explained how his LSD therapy in the early sixties made him aware of how negatives from childhood stay embedded in a person's conscience and it is up to each of us to attempt to eliminate these adversities as best as possible.
Hepburn were truly the strongest of the strong naturally and that it IS possible to become strong without chemicals.
www.directtextbook.com /isbn/1553800095   (1147 words)

  
 Geist Notes & Dispatches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His name was Doug Hepburn, and when he was relaxing in the sun he liked to say he’d seen life.
Hepburn’s mother was a quiet grandmotherly presence who appeared on days when a new batch of product was ready for packaging, and she would oversee a couple of teenaged girls at a long table in the back.
Hepburn was an amiable man; he liked to break into song in the crooning manner of Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby, and once he recorded a song about a husky dog (I even recall hearing it on the radio one Christmas, but that may be a false memory).
www.geist.com /notes/issue.php?id=30   (880 words)

  
 Articles at Lift Up, History of Olympic Weightlifting
Doug Hepburn was a new world champion when thoughtful Canadian hockey observers (yes, there were a few) could see that the one sport we could rely on to win a world title may not be so easy in future.
Doug Hepburn showed that not every athlete was perfectly suited to the mainstream sports.
That is the legacy of Doug Hepburn and Paul Anderson.
www.chidlovski.net /liftup/a_anderson_n_hepburn.asp   (3525 words)

  
 Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story - Tom Thurston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in Vancouver with a club foot and a severe alternating squint, Doug decided as a boy to surmount his disabilities by training with weights, setting his sights on becoming the world's strongest man. And this he achieved.
Doug is now known as the grandfather of modern "power weightlifting." He was World Weightlifting Champion in Stockholm in 1953, and he won the gold medal in the British Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954.
In addition to completing the biography of Doug Hepburn, Tom has written a number of screenplays, several of which are presently being considered by major film companies.
www.ronsdalepress.com /catalogue/strongman.html   (425 words)

  
 Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story By Tom Thurston - Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Doug Hepburn is what legends are made of.
Doug's tale is one that is bittersweet, a story that truly exemplifies what perseverance and goal setting is all about.
The Doug Hepburn Story is written by Tom Thurston and chronicles Hepburn's battle to become the world strongest man. Unheralded in Canada, Doug become the first man to bench press over 500 pounds.
www.wannabebig.com /printarticle.php?articleid=169   (325 words)

  
 Iowa Science Teachers Section of the IAS
The mission of the Iowa Academy of Science is to further scientific research and its dissemination, education in the sciences, public understanding of science, and recognition of excellence in these endeavors.
Doug - Concerns: Continue the current format given the environment we are dealing with.
Doug Herman made a motion that the Program Coordinator becomes a voting member of the executive board.
ists.pls.uni.edu /minutes/minutes02.html   (3809 words)

  
 Croquet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doug Grimsley, Mike Jenner, Kenster Rosenberry, Brian Cumming, Jackie Jones, Leo McBride, Mik Mehas, Jeff Soo, and perhaps the American game's most notable player, John C. Osborn, the son of USCA founder Jack Osborn.
Each of the five main characters dresses mostly in his or her croquet color, and a major characterisation is made of how one character will roquet-croquet her victim, but our hero takes the two shots and proceeds.
In Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, when Howard Hughes visits Katharine Hepburn's home in Connecticut, the family is playing croquet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croquet   (3853 words)

  
 Welcome to the Vancouver Courier - On Line - Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hepburn wore thick glasses and a beret over his grey hair the day I met him.
Hepburn was more interested in discussing how illegal steroids and grey market nutritional supplements had sullied his sport.
Hepburn was Canada's top athlete of 1953 and was inducted into sports halls of fame nationally and provincially.
www.vancourier.com /issues03/113203/sports.html   (687 words)

  
 Doug Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hepburn was the first man to officially bench 400, 450, and 500 lbs.
Ultimately, he would pause 525, 550, and 560 lbs during the early to mid 1950's.
He was also a great squatter: it was his 630 lb world record deep knee bend that Paul Anderson exceeded in late 1952.
www.americanpowerliftevolution.net /Hepburnpage3.html   (76 words)

  
 filmjourney.org : Bringing Up Baby, To Be or Not to Be
Often considered the "screwiest" of the screwball comedies, director Hawks later suggested he wished he had included at least one sane character in the film, but its off-balance consistency is somehow both hilarious and enchanting.
Cary Grant plays a straight-laced but flustered paleontologist who's about to be married to a stuffy colleague, but Katherine Hepburn, a playful heiress who (innocently?) takes mischievousness to a whole new level, arrives out of nowhere and wreaks havoc in Grant's ordered life.
Grant had already established his reputation as a comedic leading man, but Hepburn's looney turn was a surprising tangent to her dramatic screen persona (which oscillated throughout the '30s until The Philadelphia Story solidified her stardom).
filmjourney.weblogger.com /2005/03/13   (849 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Canadian strong man succumbs at 74
The Vancouver athlete was born with a club foot and withered leg but managed to overcome his physical limitations to become a champion weightlifter.
Hepburn won a gold medal at the British Empire Games in Vancouver a year later.
Hepburn was a renaissance man, trying his hand at several occupations that included poet, inventor, dietitian, cabaret singer and rambling storefront philosopher.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025828063847_21237263   (246 words)

  
 Doug Hepburn - Deadlift Routine and Doug Hepburn Picture
Doug Hepburn was considered one of the strongest men in the world at one time.
He was mostly pre-steroid era, and had a bench press in the 500's, as well as a big squat, and a big deadlift.
Obviously Hepburn didn't use one, but go ahead and wimp out and use one if you can.
www.musclenet.com /doughepburn.htm   (464 words)

  
 Yarick's Gym
Hepburn was born with a clubfoot that left him with one slightly deformed lower leg.
Hepburn handled it with ease and grace but one of the others was also successful.
Hepburn won the contest by successfully balancing the ruler above his chin while walking around the gym as everyone cheered.
www.grayironfitness.com /Yarick's.htm   (1054 words)

  
 SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Yukon Eric
Yukon was famous for submitting his opponents with his mighty bear hug and Hepburn was defeating his opponents with an upside-down bear hug, claiming he was the world's strongest man.
Hepburn was tough on Eric throughout their match, battering him wi;th his chest and breaking Eric's holds with his powerful arms.
Hepburn was a tough nut for Eric to crack and he became frustrated at Hepburn's strength and chest butts in the corner.
www.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingBios/yukoneric.html   (1720 words)

  
 T.T. Shields - Doug A. Adams
The year 1935, says Johnstone, was the year of Dr. Shields' big campaign on Mitch Hepburn, and for once Mitch had met his match in the gentle art of invective.
When Hepburn legalized the sale of beer in restaurants and hotels his fury was unmatched.
Hepburn and his opponent at the recent election....Without waiting for the receipt of our protest-but hearing of it through the press-the Premier of Ontario has already expressed his view that these protests come from "offensive temperance cranks".
www.gw.ca /documents/adams_d/ttshields.htm   (9842 words)

  
 Doug Henwood's ZNet HomePage
Doug Henwood, editor and publisher of Left Business Observer, got his B.A. in English from Yale in 1975.
At Yale, Henwood was briefly a conservative and a member of the Party of the Right, which maneuvered his election as Secretary of the Political Union, but he quickly came to his senses.
It was also a smashing best-seller, as these things go; an updated paperback version was published in June 1998.
www.zmag.org /bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=71   (442 words)

  
 Wiarton Echo, Wiarton, ON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Dear brother of Helen Greig of Lion’s Head and Brenda and Barry Gilbert of Wiarton and brother-in-law of Doug and Bonnie Satchell of Gadshill.
It is with deep sorrow that the Hepburn and Doubt families announce the passing of Douglas (Doug) Orville Hepburn of Wiarton, age 79.
Father to Janice (Randy) Williamson of Berford Lake; Larry (Cecile) Hepburn of Kitchener; Cindy Walker of Toronto; devoted and cherished stepfather of Jim (Vicki) Doubt and Laurie (Jill) Doubt both of Wiarton.
www.wiartonecho.com /story.php?id=193590   (1244 words)

  
 BBC - Lancashire Life & Style - Preston designer stamps his mark by Lyndsey Boardman
Surrey lad Doug wants to take his work outside Preston with possible commission work from an unnamed new magazine, as well as aiming to target the student population of Manchester and Liverpool.
Doug says he's always felt he was creative, reflected in his chosen degree, and says it helps that he has good space awareness and that he is very open minded.
So why for the time being Doug is content to kick start his career in Preston, it's a case of "watch this space" for a tall guy with big ambitions.
www.bbc.co.uk /lancashire/lifestyle/2004/02/15/preston_designer.shtml   (561 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn's Films
Hepburn is a daredevil aviator who has an affair with a married man and then crashes her plane rather than tell her lover that she is pregnant.
Hepburn plays an heiress on the verge of marriage when her ex-husband (Grant) and a reporter (Stewart) show up and create chaos.
A young woman (Houghton) informs her parents (Tracy and Hepburn) that she is going to marry a fl man (Poitier), and they must all deal with their racial prejudices.
www-scf.usc.edu /~kristena/films.html   (697 words)

  
 eBay - rare doug, Fan Apparel Souvenirs, Records items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Doug Hyde Smile II Limited Edition - RARE.
Doug Hyde Smile V Limited Edition - RARE.
Doug Hyde Smile III Limited Edition - RARE.
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=rare+doug&newu=1&krd=1   (550 words)

  
 Audrey Hepburn Gallery
Illustrated with dazzling photos and sketches of Hepburn on and off the set, this beautifully produced book explores Audrey's legacy in style today and shows readers how to recreate her magic in their clothes and lives.
Innocent, elegant, ethereally fragile in her beauty, Audrey Hepburn stood alone among the actresses of her time.
Her screen presence was defined, in the words of Gregory Peck, as "a magical combination of high chic and high spirits." In this highly-readable account of the enigmatic star's life, Walker presents an affectionate, celebratory and frank biography.
silverscreensirens.com /audrey.htm   (133 words)

  
 Marty Gallagher's Discussion Forum :: Discuss Diet Basics, Fitness, Exercise, Nutrition, and Everything Else   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With all due respect to Eder, Columbu was a guy who was strong in all lifts, as his comments in Gaines and Butler's "Pumping Iron" make clear, to say nothing of the poundages that he lifted in his trainng as recalled by his training partners, including Schwarzenegger.
As for Hepburn, Bill Pearl records seeing him do a front dive off an eight foot high ladder onto a cement floor, landing in a handstand and holding the position.
Incredible as this seems, and Hepburn weighed about 285, this was witnessed by a number observers, who have apparently subsequently authenticated it.
www.martygallagher.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=173   (350 words)

  
 Pre workout fuel - BruteStrength Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cocolate cake-according to Doug Hepburn-is vey beneficial as well.
Doug Hepburn had diabetes so the cake does not sound like a good idea.
It`s kind of strange cause he didn`t mention it with any word in his biography "Strongman-The Doug Heburn Story"....
www.brutestrength.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=453   (1218 words)

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