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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Harry Smith Reporting - Opinion from CBS Early Show Anchor
Harry Smith speculates of whether claims that NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan was truly caused by friendly fire or was a fratricide.
Harry Smith highlights the arrogance of Russian explorers in their quest to guard the North Pole's ocean floor as their own.
Harry Smith reports that following decades of overseeing the civil war in northern Ireland, the British military's mission there is finally over.
www.cbsnews.com /sections/opinion/smith/main500461.shtml   (467 words)

  
  Harry Smith (army) Information
Smith himself was removed from his command, his departure being deplored alike by the Kaffirs and the Dutch; and numbers of the latter, largely in consequence of this policy of Lord Gleneig began the migration to the interior known as the great trek.
Harry Smith was now appointed deputy-adjutant-general o the forces in India, where he took part in the Gwalior campaign of 1843 (for which he received a K.C.B.) and the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-46.
After the second of these actions Sir Harry Smith was appointed to an independent command, and on the 28th of January 1846 he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Sikhs at Aliwal on the Sutlej.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Harry_Smith_(army)   (851 words)

  
 Alchemical Transformations: The Abstract Films of Harry Smith
Thus Smith’s elevation to the status of the Magus was both a curse as well as a blessing, which may well have suited his overall outlook, informed as it was by arcane belief systems, in particular a penchant for alchemy and the occult.
Smith was born in 1923 in Portland, Oregon.
Smith’s earliest films (particularly those numbered 1-7, though 6 is lost) are those least directly associated with his cabalistic pursuits, and also his most geometrically abstract films.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/harry_smith.html   (4784 words)

  
 The Harry Smith Collection
Harry's wife Ann took it all in her stride, she never rubbished the idea or made fun of a grown man getting so wound-up about a singer, she continued to have an interest in her own hero, Al Martino, another Latin crooner who was her idol.
Harry, for his part would spend the next few days phoning friends and discussing the ins-and-outs and merits of the show, but in the end he and all agreed it was something to behold, roll-on next week.
Harry continued to worship his hero right up to the end, and Angela the youngest member of the family was both relieved and happy that Harry didn’t have to face the grief or mourn over the passing of his hero.
kokomo.ca /harry_smith/chapters/collection.htm   (4126 words)

  
 Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Unearthing the Harry Smith Archives
The Harry Smith Archives is housed at Anthology Film Archives, in New York City's Lower East Side, where Smith's films have been held for many years, having been selected by film scholars for inclusion in the Archive's "Essential Cinema" collection of the major works of film art in the early 1970s.
The Harry Smith collection consists of items that were in his possession at the time of his death.
The paintings of Harry Smith are unknown masterpieces that reveal the true genius and breadth of one of America's most original minds.
www.awn.com /mag/issue3.9/3.9pages/3.9singhsmith.html   (647 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist: Books: Harry Smith,Paola Igliori   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Harry Smith was a legend, a behind-the-scenes facilitator and cultural force.
Harry was an avante-garde filmmaker, jazz fan, compiler of the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, "Occultist" of a benevolent sort, and collector.
Unfortunately Harry had his "demons" and was prone to destroying his valuable and unique belongings and creations, and lashing out and alienating his friends at times.
www.amazon.ca /American-Magus-Harry-Smith-Alchemist/dp/0962511994   (683 words)

  
 Harry Smith, The Early Show Anchor - CBS News
Smith first worked for CBS News for 13 years as an anchor, correspondent and featured contributor for various broadcasts.
Smith joined CBS News in 1986 as a Dallas-based reporter and was named a correspondent in March 1987, reporting primarily for the CBS Evening News.
Smith was born in Lansing, Ill. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and theater from Central College in Pella, Iowa.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/10/14/earlyshow/bios/main525446.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Harry Potter - The Official Site
Harry Potter, "the boy who lived," is in for a dangerous fourth year at Hogwarts when the Goblet of Fire selects him to compete as one of four champions in the Triwizard Tournament - despite the fact that he did not submit his name.
Hermione is as surprised as Harry when he is chosen as a Hogwarts champion by the Goblet of Fire - but is a great resource to him as he prepares for each task.
Harry spends a good deal of time working up the nerve to invite her to the Yule Ball.
harrypotter.warnerbros.com   (0 words)

  
 Harry Smith | NewsBusters.org
Substitute CBS Evening News anchor Harry Smith, however, saw only one of the cases as involving free speech as he stressed the ideological direction of the court: “Today the justices ruled on a broad range of issues, including campaign finance reform and free speech for students.
Smith then described California, a state that Kerry defeated Bush by nine percent, as "more moderate" than Iowa and New Hampshire, two states that were decided by about one percent of the vote.
Harry Smith, who covered the Duke lacrosse case dismissal the previous day, did not even see it fit to ask if Sharpton had any regrets from his rush to judgement in Durham.
newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/199   (4217 words)

  
 The Celestial Monochord: The Harry Smith Project - Thoughts in Advance
Smith's Anthology and the lessons it taught shaped the revivals that followed it and defined the careers of some of the best musicians of the late 20th Century.
Harry Smith himself was markedly dismissive of the Anthology and considered other, largely forgotten, projects to be more important.
The documentary is by Rani Singh, the director of the Harry Smith Archives and Smith's friend and assistant in the last years of his life.
www.celestialmonochord.org /2006/10/the_harry_smith.html   (1291 words)

  
 Salon | Sharps & Flats
Smith never mastered that particular trick, but by the age of 29, he'd pulled off a far more impressive bit of alchemy -- compiling six vinyl discs which would forever alter the nation's musical landscape.
A friend of the beats, Smith was a dilettante, a drifter and an early, avid drug user (as well as a notorious alcoholic -- that he actually lived to the relatively ripe age of 68 is the last in a long line of minor miracles).
Smith's structure weakens by Volume II, as thematic connections are subsumed by musical ones.
www.salon.com /music/sharps/1997/10/06smith.html   (1233 words)

  
 Harry Smith Screening (Getty Press Release)
Harry Smith was an artist whose activities and interests resonated throughout the American avant-garde.
Audio tracks from Smith's Materials for Study of the Religion and Culture of the Lower East Side and the Anthology of American Folk Music, a display of the original art from the anthology, and video selections from Harry Smith's films will be among the offerings.
Tickets to "Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project" at UCLA are available for $70, $50, $30, and $15 (UCLA students with valid I.D.) at the UCLA Central Ticket Office in the James West Alumni Center, online at www.performingarts.ucla.edu, and at all Ticketmaster outlets.
www.getty.edu /news/press/public/hsmith.html   (1333 words)

  
 ITG News: Harry Smith, 1927-2003
Harry continued to do regular gigs to sustain the family through those years and established a busy private practice as a brass teacher at his home in Bristol.
Harry's performing career also continued after graduation and he was the first trumpet of choice for a surprisingly wide range of jobs.
In the last 10 years Harry trained as a Piano Technician and was one of a very few in St Lucia maintaining the pianos of the island.
www.trumpetguild.org /news/news03/074harrysmith.htm   (736 words)

  
 Smithsonian Folkways - Anthology of America Folk Music - Old Time Songs - African American & Afro Music
The Anthology of American Folk Music, Edited by Harry Smith, is one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound.
It inspired a generation of musicians to go in search of the traditions, and, in some cases, the musicians whose recordings Harry Smith had selected to include in the Anthology.
Like the Harry Smith's original release, the revised Anthology is divided into three volumes: Vol.
www.folkways.si.edu /learn_discover/anthology/anthology.html   (411 words)

  
 Harry Smith - Chapter 1
Footnote1 -The birthplace of Sir Harry Smith in St. Mary's Street, Whittlesey, is now called 'Aliwal House.' In his MS he left the year of his birth vacant, and it would appear that he was uncertain of his own age (cp.
Harry Smith's father, John Smith (son of Wakelyn Smith), born 1756, died Sept. 2nd 1843, married in 1781 Eleanor (born 1760, died 12 Dec. 1813), daughter of Rev. George Moore, M.A. (Queen's College, Cambridge), vicar of St Mary and St Andrew, Whittlesey, and minor canon of Peterborough Cathedral.
Arthur M. Smith, at his request for his book The Smiths of Exeter, and will there be found, although, in the opinion of the present editor, no connexion between the two families can be established.
www.rider.co.nz /~awoodley/harry/harry1.html   (3368 words)

  
 Harry Smith - Introduction
The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith was published in two volumes in 1901.
The present publication consists of the earlier part of the autobiography, and gives the story of the author's military life to the year 1819, when the occupation of France after Waterloo was over, and the disbanding of veterans typified the close of the great era of the Napoleonic wars.
It was, therefore, necessary for me, in preparing it for publication, to make occasional trifling changes in the construction or order of the sentences, It may, however, be broadly said that the words though are the author's own, and that nothing was added to the narrative or omitted from it.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/harry/harryintro.html   (295 words)

  
 Harry Smith (television) at AllExperts
Harry Smith (born August 21, 1951 in Lansing, Illinois) is a co-anchor for CBS' The Early Show and the host of A&E's Biography series.
Smith has also hosted several documentarys on holidays for the History Channel to include: Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Holloween.
In 1986, Smith joined CBS News as a reporter and was later named a correspondent in 1987.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/ha/harry_smith_(television).htm   (401 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Harry Smith
With a pedigree that includes a track star named "Handsome" Harry Smith, a former WWE Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion father, the late Davey Boy Smith, not to mention the entire Hart family's influence on his mother's side, it's no wonder that many mat watchers have "Bulldog" Harry Smith pegged for greatness.
Smith did branch out, however, heading to England to battle Jeff Jarrett on behalf of his uncle Bret, then returning home to win the AWA Pinnacle Title and battle A.J. Styles in an ultimately losing cause in Pro Wrestling Elite.
Finally, on April 4, 2006, WWE signed Harry Smith to a a developmental contract and are expected to bring him up to Raw or Smackdown in June.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/Bios/smith-harry.html   (625 words)

  
 Harry Bache Smith Papers
Harry Bache Smith was born in Buffalo, New York, on December 28, 1860, to Elizabeth Bach and Josiah Bailey Smith.
Smith was the earliest American lyricist to be honored with a published collection of his lyrics.
The material in the Harry Bache Smith papers pertains primarily to his writing career and collecting interests as illustrated by correspondence, autographs, manuscripts of his own work and that of others, notes and drafts, scrapbooks and clippings, receipts, and music scores.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/smith.harry.html   (1712 words)

  
 Harry Smith tribute
Smith had an encyclopedic knowledge of 78's and a preternatural feel for the connections between them- across race and ethnic boundries- not only to codify them for us but also to have this collection persist as an absolutely definitive and essential historical document.
Harry as usual was cantakerous and perfectionist and said 'Well, they got all the wrong takes.' There's a much better on of 'Prayer Blues,' he kept saying, but I never had access to the tapes, so I don't know what he preferred.
It was a beautiful speech because it very briefly said that he'd lived long enough to see the philosophy of the homeless and the Negro and the minorities and the impoverished- of which he was one, starving in the Bowery- alter the consciousness of America suffiently to affect the politics.
www.furious.com /perfect/harrysmith.html   (2690 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Screens: A Waking Dream: in*situ Spotlights Harry Smith, Avant-Garde Filmmaker
For Smith, who died in 1991 at the age of 68, the common thread that ran through these diverse areas of expertise was the desire to expose interconnections, the recurring themes and patterns and cycles that link vastly different things.
Smith had been fascinated by the interplay of music with his films since the 1940s, when he would project them on the wall at jazz clubs to accompany his favorite musicians.
Harry Smith: A Recreation will be presented by in*situ collective on Friday, November 12, 8pm and Sunday, November 14, 7pm, at Scottish Rite Temple, 207 W. 18th.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/1999-11-12/screens_feature4.html   (885 words)

  
 Harry Smith ~ A Perry Como Fan
Harry became the Liaison Officer for the new club, keeping in touch with Perry's head offices in New York, Vancouver and London, for all things concerning Perry's forthcoming tours etc. Being an Honourary Member meant that he was able to obtain tickets for Perry's shows whenever he appeared in England.
Harry was what you would call "on personal first name terms" with Perry, he even had a large signed photograph from Perry "To Harry and Ann" hanging on his wall, which was only taken down when the wall needed redecoration.
Harry was also well known in the United States for nearly all of Perry's years from 1945 onwards.
kokomo.ca /harry_smith/chapters/intro.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Podcast XML Content Page - CBS News
Nick Young reports on the investigation into this week's bridge collapse which is expected to be lengthy.
Harry Smith shares his thoughts on the United States' recent dealings with countries in the Middle East.
But if you want to work internationally, be sure to go about it the right way.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/07/06/utility/main706903.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Harry Smith News - Topix
News about Harry Smith continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Harry Smith, Hannah Storm and Dave Price will be in Central Florida to bring the show to the nation.
I edit the Harry Smith News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
www.topix.net /who/harry-smith   (688 words)

  
 Harry Smith
Harry L. Smith is the Chairman and CEO of Schilling Enterprises and Schilling Incorporated.
A member of the Chamber Board of Directors since 2000, Harry served as Vice Chairman of Finance and was elected Chairman of the Board in 2001.
Harry has been involved with many professional associations such as the National Automobile Dealers Association, The Tennessee Automotive Association, and the Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association.
www.colliervillechamber.com /chamber/harry_smith.htm   (140 words)

  
 Harry Smith 1927-2003
Harry's performing career also continued after graduation and he was the first trumpet of choice for a surprisingly wide range of jobs: there are very few venues in the area and the neighbouring towns and countryside that have not resounded to Harry's powerful sound.
Harry's playing was serious but he liked to affect a nonchalant attitude towards it: there are a wealth of anecdotes concerning Harry's ability to fill in crossword clues one-handed in pit orchestras while playing sizzling top Zs with the other, a trick which could disconcert visitors.
I worked in many bands with Harry: at his best he was a secure and sparkling lead trumpet with an enviable sense of style and interpretation.
www.nevilley.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /trumpet/harry   (1374 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: The Harry Smith Project Live
Through the '60s and the folk movement, Harry Smith gathered in reputation, and by the '90s, he had been awarded a Grammy for his achievement and the Anthology was reissued on CD.
Harry Smith was once again ahead of his time.
The Harry Smith Project is a special combination of concept and design, bringing music and film together in one expansive package that should appeal to music fans interested in the history of the material and new listeners who might enjoy the variety of performers represented.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/review.php?ID=24788   (1259 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Harry Smith tickets, dates
Smith continued to build up a massive collection of records and other artifacts throughout the '40s, moving to the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually, at the beginning of the '50s, New York.
Smith was also, like many artists, often short of cash, which led him to seek out Moe Asch of Folkways Records, in hopes that Asch would buy some of Smith's collection.
Smith returned to working on film and painting throughout the rest of the '50s, one of his projects being an unfinished movie titled The Wizard of Oz.
www.ticketmaster.com /artist/721503?brand=none   (1274 words)

  
 Harry Smith In Baghdad, Complains He Couldn't Get Ice Cream
Smith focused on the negative, and even complained that the security situation is so bad that he couldn’t go out and get ice cream.
Smith would never mention how dangerous it was to go into the "minority" sections of Pre-Katrina New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc, etc...to buy his damned ice cream...or the crack his must be smoking.
Harry Smith has always been the bigest Hen at the hen party cbs claims to be a morning show......god is he a wimp.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1635215/posts   (1416 words)

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