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  Sidney Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sidney Coe Howard, born June 26, 1891 in Oakland, California, United States – died August 23, 1939 in Tyringham, Massachusetts, was a playwright and screenwriter who became the first person to win both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award.
In 1932, Howard was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith, and again in 1936 for Dodsworth.
Sidney Howard was buried in the Tyringham Cemetery, in Tyringham, Massachusetts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidney_Howard   (372 words)

  
 Howard Fast's "An Epitaph for Sidney"
Sidney's mother, who was like a shadow moving here and there, cooking and cleaning, but always like a shadow, gave to the children and never asked anything in return, not even love, until she died in 1932.
Sidney didn't tell her, in that letter, that when Smith and Goldstein were wounded, he had cared for them, nursed them and sometimes carried them, that he bore them both across the Ebro.
Sidney's name was brought up for the Congressional Medal of Honor, but that was a big-time operation, and they went into his past, and the matter was dropped.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/sidney.html   (4225 words)

  
 Sidney Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Howard plans to rest up over the next few weeks and focus on August, when he'll be competing at the nationals in Decatur, Ill., and the North American Championships in Puerto Rico.
Howard's infectious personality has brought him many friends in Bermuda over the years but he credits the warm reception from the Bermuda people he and his late wife, Sandra, received back in 1977 when they visited the Island on holiday for his many subsequent trips.
Howard: At the National Master indoors in Boston last year, when I was 59, the winner (in the 60-plus group) ran 2:16.7 and just missed it; the record was 2:16.64 by Earl Free of Canada.
www.centralparktc.org /members/showard.htm   (2692 words)

  
 Edson Family - Descendants of Thomas Edson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Parnel Howard was born on 2 Jun 1782.
Sidney Howard was born on 12 Jun 1790.
Sidney Howard was born on 26 Sep 1850.
home.earthlink.net /~pbkingman4/Edson/b50.htm   (476 words)

  
 Edson Family - Descendants of Thomas Edson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry Howard was born on 15 Jun 1808.
Hovenden Littlefield Howard was born on 15 Mar 1821.
Jeremiah Beals Howard was born on 5 Oct 1855.
home.earthlink.net /~pbkingman4/Edson/b48.htm   (407 words)

  
 Howard.html
Albert Sidney Johnston HOWARD was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi December 26, 1865.
Robert Frances HOWARD was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi December 18, 1867.
Wilber Sidney HOWARD was born in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas September 22, 1926.
www.jcsisle.com /howard.html   (2698 words)

  
 November 1899; shelby county ohio historical society
Howard B. Dill and wife, Misses Nellie Honnold, Rose and Anna Kummer, Mamie Bird, Maud Lyon and Messrs.
Sterritt made frequent visits back to his old home and was always the guest of my father during his stay in the early years of this century, and from this fact his name became a household word in our family.
Little did that old Virginia farmer imagine when he settled on what was then an unbroken forest that in less than one hundred years all of his broad acres would be covered by magnificent private residences, crossed by beautiful streets and on every hand the hum of industry.
www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/archives/100yearsago/nov1899100yA.htm   (477 words)

  
 Another reason to remember Sidney Howard
If the Oakland-born Howard is remembered at all, it's for adapting Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" into a 1939 movie you may have heard of.
Howard married twice, and one of his daughters contributed a loving memoir of him in Vanity Fair a few years back.
You wouldn't catch a Howard hero leaving his lab in the Vermont woods for one in Manhattan, or not in the last reel, anyway.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/27/DDGEAB0C2B1.DTL&type=printable   (1240 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sidney Coe Howard (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
It was followed by such plays as Ned McCobb's Daughter (1926), about a courageous New England resort owner; The Silver Cord (1926), concerning possessive maternalism; and Yellow Jack (1934), a dramatization of man's struggle against yellow fever.
Howard's other works include the adaptation The Late Christopher Bean (1932) and the Academy Award winning screenplay for the movie Gone With the Wind (1939).
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Sidney Coe Howard
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 Howard, Sidney --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Howard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1915 and studied under George Pierce Baker at his Harvard 47 Workshop.
The plot drew its name from Rye House at Hoddeston, Hertfordshire, near which ran a narrow road where Charles was supposed to be killed as he traveled from a horse meet at Newmarket.
American biochemist and molecular biologist who, with Sidney Altman, was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA (ribonucleic acid).
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041234?tocId=9041234   (697 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Video: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers / Showboat [1954]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Howard Keel, standing tall and erect in his 80s, hosts the "making of" documentary.
The documentary also highlights the care taken over the casting of the brothers, two of whom including Keel were not dancers and their often brave and brilliant feats of acrobatic dancing executed on precarious planks and other props.
When Howard Keel takes his farewell walk down the main street lot at MGM, breaking into a few brief dance steps, it's impossible not to feel a moment of regret that the curtain had to come down on MGM's most treasured possession.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000057H76   (1261 words)

  
 The Business Journal: Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was a quarter century ago that Sidney Lustig Kline and Howard Lustig Kline sold the area's dominant shoe enterprise to the Wolverine Shoe Co.
And it was almost a century ago that their grandfather, Joseph Lustig, bought the shoe store that was then located on the top floor of the old Youngstown, Ohio, YMCA on West Federal Street.
On nights and weekends he, Howard or their father and Bert Lustig would go out to branch stores to see firsthand how they were doing and demonstrate their interest.
www.business-journal.com /success_stories/99065_sidkline.html   (1483 words)

  
 UVA Health Sciences Library: Historical Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Howard describes his play, "Yellow Jack." He mentions taking artistic license with his treatment of the volunteer soldiers' lives for the sake of the story.
Howard writes that his play opens tonight and discusses the changes he has made.
Howard writes that he will send Moran a copy of "Yellow Jack." He reports on the play's success and sympathizes with Moran's difficulties related to the Cuban revolution.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /healthsci/reed/browse/033.html   (1562 words)

  
 Howard Fast texts online
Howard Fast in Being Red on "A Child is Lost".
Howard Fast, Mother Bloor Head Whitman Peace Festival.
Howard Fast and the Shape of the Political Memoir.
www.trussel.com /hf/textndx.htm   (2179 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | This man can survive shark attacks
Howard Dean's party rivals scent blood, but he's still unscathed
The presidential party of the party that doesn't hold the White House is like a ghost party that miraculously springs to life in the January of election year.
Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, arrives at his position as frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination by outpacing three successive alternative frontrunners.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1114376,00.html   (780 words)

  
 The Mercury - News - 07/09/2002 - Intuition pays off in $1,200 jackpot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Why, the call that would inform Howard that she was the winner of the final jackpot in The Mercury's Tags of Gold contest.
Howard said her husband chuckled and shook his head.
At that time, Howard used her weekly drawing prize to purchase bonds for her grandchildren.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=4682793&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6   (359 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I am descended from Matthew Howard of Maryland (as was Jesse James — the John Howard shown in your newsletter #10, who married Katherine Greenberry, was a grandson of Matthew).
Her affair with Thomas Howard was very controversial at the time, and many doubt there was a marriage.
I am interested in Ruhamah Howard who married John Foard/Ford sometime before 1748, probably in Baltimore, MD. I don't have anything on the Howard line but do have info about the Ford line.
home.comcast.net /~ric-howard/HFEN/21.html   (1290 words)

  
 Reilly, Sidney --  Encyclopædia Britannica
An Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, Sir Philip Sidney was considered the ideal gentleman of his day.
U.S. jazz musician Sidney Bechet was known as the master of the soprano saxophone.
It was his mastery of drama and his use of critically timed deviations in pitch (“note bending”) that had the greatest long-lasting influence, because they were...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9063094?tocId=9063094&query=william   (602 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Sidney Howard
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard worked in Hollywood writing alone or with others during the '20s and '30s.
His popular play They Knew What They Wanted was filmed three times in 1928, 1930, and 1940 and later was adapted into the Broadway musical The Most Happy Fella'.
Among his most distinguished screenplays are Dodsworth (1936) and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he was the principal and only billed writer.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/83883/bio.jhtml   (132 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Sidney Howard
Subjects: Howard, Sidney Coe, -- 1891-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Howard, Sidney Coe, -- 1891-1939 -- Critique et interprétation.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/51c8fddcc64443c0.html   (48 words)

  
 Hall murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In his employ were Homer Glaze and Lester C. Butler, both clerks and Howard Hall, a 57 year old master grocer that had taken a position in the store as the meat market manager in 1929.
In Sidney Little and his grocery business, Howard Hall found the opportunity to work in the profession that he loved and had immense knowledge in, without the pressures that generally accompany ownership.
This is the location of Howard Hall's grocery that he owned for a decade at 401-3 E. Brockett Street.
texashideout.tripod.com /Hall.html   (1455 words)

  
 Find A Person Sidney information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sidney Grimes was born in 1800 at Georgia.1 She was the daughter of John Grimes.1 As of 24 February 1819...
The Genealogy of Gerald andamp; Tammy Howard Westmoreland.
Robert Dempsey Allen is the son of Sidney Lane Allen and Paricia Dawn Oden.1 Robert Dempsey Allen...
aussie2find.com /find-a-person-sidney.html   (569 words)

  
 www.rufusharris.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Multi-keyboardist Sidney Howard entered the professional music scene in 1980—just after completing his Undergraduate degree in Jazz and Commercial Music from Mississippi Valley State University.
However, music ministry was to come a little bit later for Sidney.
Above it all, this once aspiring stage actor is now again at home performing live with Rufus and the band…the family.
www.rufusharris.com /sidney.html   (314 words)

  
 Alien corn by Sidney Howard WPA Posters
"Alien corn" by Sidney Howard Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Alien Corn" at the Mayan Theatre, showing a ship on the horizon and stalks of corn.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) Posters were made during the WWII Era between 1936 and 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
Description: "Alien corn" by Sidney Howard Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Alien Corn" at the Mayan Theatre, showing a ship on the horizon and stalks of corn.
www.rainfall.com /posters/WPA/1791.htm   (292 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Video: Kiss Me Kate [1953]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Howard Keel as Fred/Petruchio is terrific & Kathryn Grayson(Lily/Kate) is no slouch either.
Ann Miller & Tommy Rall as secondary leads have marvellous dance routines but the real highlight is the performance of 'Brush up your Shakespeare' by Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore as the gangsters sent to collect a debt from Fred.
Well worth it just to see her tap dancing on Howard Keel’s coffee table and showing off the kind of legs that models don’t have today; nice and chunky.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CJD3   (414 words)

  
 NPR : Sidney Howard and Hollywood's Golden Age
NPR : Sidney Howard and Hollywood's Golden Age
Day to Day, January 26, 2005 · In this week's Day to Day book bag, critic David Kipen remembers screenwriter and national literary figure Sidney Howard.
Howard wrote the screenplay for Gone With The Wind and other acclaimed films from the golden age of Hollywood.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4466765   (133 words)

  
 Ocean Sciences|Webcam-Howard Freeland's Office Window
The camera is at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.
Howard works in "OS" also known as the Ocean Sciences Division.
If it is working, the camera takes pictures at 2 minute intervals, hit the Re-Load button or F5 to refresh the picture.
www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /sci/osap/people/window.htm   (114 words)

  
 Sid Howard - Black Sheep Gallery
Sid Howard was one of Nova Scotia's most popular folk artists, and his work has been widely collected.
He showed an interest in carving after 1945, although many of his early works were destroyed in a fire in the late 1960's.
His work also appeared in the Canadian Folk Art Calendar for 1996.
www.lighthouse.ca /howard.html   (104 words)

  
 My Family
Children were: Infant girl BARKER, Frank E BARKER, Barton (Bert) E BARKER, Sidney Howard BARKER, Charles Lane BARKER, Sherman BARKER, John BARKER, Robert (Bob) BARKER.
Parents: Sidney Howard BARKER and Mildred Jesse WOOD.
Parents: Frank Ezra BARKER and Dora M. Sidney Howard BARKER was born on 23 Aug 1905 in Jackson, MS.
www.okmls.com /jeanfam/d11.htm   (1334 words)

  
 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
725 Ned McCobb’s Daughter by Sidney Howard, Directed by Howard Graham Aug.
726 The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard, Directed by Ralph Mead Aug.
727 Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard, Directed by Morris Ankrum Aug.
www.pasadenaplayhouse.org /lists/1944.htm   (333 words)

  
 World of Quotes - Sidney Howard Quotes.
2 Quotes for 'Sidney Howard' in the Database.
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
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