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  Harry Smith (television)
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 began his broadcasting career at Denver radio stations KHOW and KIMN and Cincinnati radio station WLW (1973-81).
In 1986, Smith joined CBS News as a reporter and was later named a correspondent in 1987.
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 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)

  
 Harry Smith - Biography - AOL Music
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.
As a result of that encounter, Smith was given the task of assembling some of the best of the music he collected for the Anthology of American Folk Music volumes, which appeared in 1952.
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.
music.aol.com /artist/harry-smith/361221/biography   (1011 words)

  
 Harry Smith (television) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Smith conducts an interview on CBS' The Early Show
Harry Smith (born August 21, 1951 in Lansing, Illinois) is a co-anchor for CBS' The Early Show and the host of AandE's Biography series.
Smith has also hosted several documentaries on holidays for the History Channel to include: Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Smith_(television)   (260 words)

  
 Will Smith Biography
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith - Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, wife of Joseph Smith Jr., written by by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery.
Harry Smith (television) - Harry Smith (born August 21, 1951 in Lansing, Illinois) is a co-anchor for CBS' The Early Show and the host of AandE's Biography series.
The subject is a difficult one: Smith was not only the visionary founder of an entire religion based on revelation, but a man caught up in controversy.
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 Harry Smith | NewsBusters.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It was Harry Smith’s "Walter Cronkite moment." For those who do not understand the reference, it refers to Walter Cronkite’s statement on the "CBS Evening News" on February 27, 1968 that the US was stuck in a stalemate in Vietnam.
Smith interviewed Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of "Newsweek" magazine regarding an article that appeared in today’s edition of the publication, particularly the portions of the article that dealt with a chat Thomas had with former Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki.
Smith chose to frame the debate as a "crackdown on undocumented workers" and ignored the fact that these "undocumented workers" are in fact in America illegally.
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 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)

  
 Harry Smith | NewsBusters.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Smith had the opportunity to speak with Wendy Sherman, President Clinton’s former North Korea adviser, and while he noted that people like former Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, whom Smith describes as "a very wise guy about this stuff," think we should talk directly with the North Korean regime, he omitted any questions about Ms.
Harry Smith continued to pounce on the Foley scandal on this morning’s "Early Show." Smith talked with former Secretary of State James Baker in the 7:00 half hour, and immediately focused on the Foley e-mail scandal and whether Speaker Hastert ought to resign his position over it.
The highlight of her extended interview with Harry Smith on this morning's Early Show, touting her debut on tonight's CBS Evening News, was her claim that what the "old media" has to offer in contrast with the new media is.
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 ProWrestlingSCOOPS.com: Harry Smith-WWE Update, ROH Star In WWE
In the article, Smith talks about the pain he has had to endure through the years, not to mention his own wrestling career.
Smith appeared at several house shows over the summer, but was taken off the road for the most part in early September.
Smith has since wrestled on the 10/1 and 10/14 RAW brand house shows.
www.prowrestlingscoops.com /article/163895696.php   (224 words)

  
 Harry Smith
Harry Smith (1923-1991) is an Americann Bohemian, artist, eccentric.
He is best remembered for assembling the Anthology of American Folk Music, a collection of early folk, blues and country music.
Harry Smith is also an on-air television personality for the CBS network in the United States.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/h/ha/harry_smith.html   (133 words)

  
 village voice > music > Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four by Robert Cantwell
It is Harry Smith, now, not the Carter Family or the Blue Sky Boys, who is being summoned from the spirit world.
It was nearly 50 years ago that Harry gathered these recordings together for his fourth volume, and only an accident of history that their release should come in a new technology whose headlong career has buried us in the tailings of our own past.
We are, in a sense, just where Harry was in the Seattle warehouse when he began the monumental task of rescuing a discarded human story out of a mass of junk—a prolonged act of sympathetic attention whose ultimate form, Revenant's Volume Four makes evident at last, was the beleaguered soul of the rescuer himself.
www.villagevoice.com /music/0031,cantwell,16939,22.html   (2081 words)

  
 Will Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Smith started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, with his childhood friend Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as turntablist and producer as well as Ready Rock C (Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box.
Smith was nearing bankruptcy when in 1990, the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Will_Smith   (1821 words)

  
 Harry Smith: man with a mission - co-host of 'CBS This Morning' television program - Interview - Cover Story Saturday ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A letter from Harry Smith soliciting a contribution for Central College in Iowa piqued my curiosity.
Although his day began at 4 a.m., he was now relaxed and chipper as we settled down to talk on the sofa in his small, rather Spartan office.
Smith: Yes, we found all kinds of sins to commit when I was there.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n3_v265/ai_13685086   (935 words)

  
 Harry Smith Reporting - Opinion from CBS Early Show Anchor
The New Hampshire primary is more than a year away, but Harry Smith writes that the Granite State is abuzz from a recent visit by the electrifying junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
Harry Smith says he found some holiday spirit in an unlikely place.
Harry Smith notes that it's likely to agree with outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that a "stay the course" approach won't work.
cbsnews.com /track/rss/sections/opinion/smith/main500461.shtml??...   (443 words)

  
 Powell Calls for Perseverance in Iraq Despite Military Losses
Responding to a similar question from CBS television's Harry Smith, the secretary added, "The challenge before us now is to make sure that that loss [of life] was not in vain, to persevere, to not grow faint, to recognize that we have challenges ahead of us."
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, Harry, you know we mourn the loss of every one of these brave Americans who served their nation so well and they served their nation in the cause of freedom.
In Afghanistan and in Iraq, what we have achieved is the removal of two terrible regimes that were sponsors of terrorism, that were dictatorships and that threatened not only their own people in the region but threatened us ultimately.
www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/2004/september/090903.html   (2693 words)

  
 Figure Four Weekly to Distribute Pinnacle Wrestling DVDs
The first release, Cutthroat, features one of Harry Smith's final independent matches prior to his signing with World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. All future DVD releases will be sold online at Figure Four Weekly's website, www.F4Wonline.com, and at live Pinnacle Wrestling events.
Smith is the son of former WWE and WCW star "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, who passed away in 2002.
Smith defends his AWA Washington State Title against Portland Wrestling mainstay Skag Rollins in the main event.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/5/prweb385447.htm   (521 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Time is right for Harry Smith
Smith turns 21 in August, and will be joining a lot of young lions on the main roster.
Smith is aware of his legacy and responsibilities, but also hopes to be judged on his own merit and achieve his goals, including winning the title his father never did.
Harry Smith's final Alberta wrestling appearances will be Friday, May 12th in Cochrane for Stampede Wrestling against TJ Wilson, and Saturday, May 13th in Edmonton for The Prairie Wrestling Alliance against Duke Durrango and TJ Wilson.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2006/05/10/1573287.html   (2145 words)

  
 Northern Star | Harry Potter Preview
Harry’s relatives have just as reluctantly learned to live with the unwelcome presence of their orphaned relation, a constant reminder of Petunia’s “wayward” sister and brother-in-law and their mysterious and untimely demise.
Much to Harry’s disbelief, it transpires that the puzzlingly persistent letters are invitations for him, on the occasion of his 11th birthday, to leave the regular world and join his similarly-talented peers at the legendary Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry is completely overwhelmed by the revelations about his parents and the invitation to Hogwarts.
www.star.niu.edu /features/harry_potter/notes.html   (4643 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - CBS announces new anchor lineup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Starting Oct. 28, Smith will be joined by Julie Chen, the lone holdover from the current The Early Show team; former NBC sportscaster Hannah Storm; and Rene Syler, a news anchor at the CBS-owned station in Dallas.
One sub in July was Smith, 51, who had been host of CBS This Morning from 1987 to 1996.
Both he and the network were buoyed that week when the ratings went up and CBS received hundreds of e-mails wanting to see him again.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2002-10-15-early-show_x.htm   (548 words)

  
 LesiureSuit.net Live: Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project, St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn
Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music", a collection of folk/blues/gospel/country music from the late 20s and early 30s is an extremely important and influential work, but is something you should own or should play as opposed to something you do.
Harry Smith was a very funny guy, and a very cool animator.
Sonic Youth were pretty cool accompanying Smiths films, but less of them would have been fine with me. And much less of DJ Spooky would have been even better.
www.leisuresuit.net /Webzine/articles/harry_smith.shtml   (878 words)

  
 Harry Smith - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Harry Smith has been an anchor of The Early Show since Oct. 28, 2002.
The Harry Smith Anthology, as some call it, was the bible of folk music...
Download, listen and watch Harry Smith music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 IPW UK: International Pro Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His immense frame and power, coupled with such a glittering knowledge and background in wrestling, are sure to give Smith all the upper-hand he needs.
Simmonz feels that had it not been for Smith, he would now be standing in IPW:UK rings as a tag or even IPW champion.
The challenge was then set for Simmonz vs. Smith, and on April 30th, it's on.
www.ipwuk.com /roster/singles/harrysmith.shtml   (237 words)

  
 Cues n Views Index Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cues n Views is about saving old cues for future generations to enjoy and a service that aims to inform those of you that are interested in old cues about their history, their design peculiarities and their current market value as a collector’s item or for insurance purposes.
Harry Smith Index Page - This is the start of a series of articles looking at some of the less common areas of Billiard book collecting.
Harry Smith is an avid collector of many of the books that you will see referred to in these articles, so look forward to sharing his experiences.
www.cuesnviews.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888   (3427 words)

  
 Honoring Fallen Heroes, Harry Smith: The Most Important 30 Seconds On Television - CBS News
Harry Smith: The Most Important 30 Seconds On Television
The producers who put the segments together tell me the families are grateful, for above all, they want to make sure their loved ones are not forgotten.
Harry's daily commentary can be heard on many CBS Radio News affiliates across the country.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/10/26/opinion/smith/main982455.shtml   (443 words)

  
 Audio Channels tagged with smith on Odeo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Common sense and uncommon wit in daily doses from Harry Smith, the anchor of The Early Show.
CIA agent Stan Smith lives with his wife Francine and their two children, ultra-liberal Hayley and nerdish Steve.
Tom Smith has created the Sports Scouting Network to provide the ultimate service to students and educators in financial aid and admissions.
odeo.com /tag/smith   (225 words)

  
 Harry Smith News
News about Harry Smith continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Posted Dec 5th 2006 3:45PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: CBS, Daytime, Celebrities I didn't even know that Syler was a host of The Early Show.
Harry Smith, Central College '73 and member of the board of trustees, has been all over the world - but coming back to Pella never gets old.
www.topix.net /who/harry-smith   (655 words)

  
 Harry Smith Takes Rather's Radio Feature
Harry Smith will take over Dan Rather's daily radio feature after it ends a 24-year run on the CBS News Radio Network today.
Harry Smith Reporting, a two and a half minute daily feature, will begin Thursday, March 10, on the network's 300 radio stations.
Smith has also contributed to CBS News documentaries and 48 Hours.
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