"the short-lived ""Tri-State Network"" to compete with entertainment programming produced by Crosley Broadcasting Corporation on Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio broadcast markets. On January 11, 1954, a new ""The Wendy Barrie Show"" premiered from the studios of WHIO-TV in Dayton, simulcast on Taft Broadcasting's WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WTVN-TV (now WSYX) in Columbus. Wendy Barrie's contract was terminated in October, 1954. A DuMont episode survives on YouTube under the title ""The Wendy Barrie Show"", and featuring guest Jack Shaindlin. One DuMont episode from June 1949, under the title ""Who's Who With Wendy Barrie"", is held"
"J. M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in ""The Little White Bird""), then to write ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"", a ""fairy play"" about an ageless"
"playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig. He served as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh from 1930 to 1937. J. M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included"
"J. J. Barrie J. J. Barrie (born Barry Authors, July 7, 1933) is a Canadian songwriter and singer. He is best known for his 1976 UK chart-topper, ""No Charge"". A former Blue Mink and Ocean manager, and ex-comedian, Barrie turned to songwriting and in early 1976 co-wrote ""Where's The Reason"" with Terry Britten for Glen Campbell. They sent a demo to Campbell's producer, but he suggested Barrie record it. This he did, but it was unsuccessful. Undaunted, Barrie recorded a cover version of the country ballad ""No Charge"", penned by Harlan Howard, on Barrie's own label, Power Exchange. The track"
"long-resident writer J. M. Barrie (d.1937) who wrote ""Peter Pan"". Adjacent, on the west side of the street, is Hyde Park Towers, an 8-storey, dark-brick, Art Deco-inspired block with hexagonal and lozenge projections. This is behind a narrow band of trees, shrubs and railings. Beyond this are shophouses of yellow-brown then yellow brickwork with a crowning cornice (ledge), other white dressings and sash windows (19-34 consecutive), many of which face the main front of Corringham, an architecturally listed, glass-heavy residential block officially in Craven Hill Gardens, designed by Kenneth Frampton (born 1930, in later life, Ware Professor of Architecture at"
"name in 2012. The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and his close friendship with her sons named George, Jack, Peter and Michael, who inspire the classic play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up"". Following the dismal reception of his latest play, ""Little Mary"", Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) in Kensington Gardens, and a strong, close friendship develops between them. He proves to be a great playmate and surrogate father figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics"
"English-speaking world before J. M. Barrie's work and its subsequent popularity has led some to credit him with ""inventing"" it. Although the name ""Wendy"" was used to a limited extent as the familiar-form of the Welsh name Gwendolyn, it is thought that Barrie took the name from a phrase used by Margaret Henley, a five-year-old girl whom Barrie befriended in the 1890s, daughter of his friend William Henley. She called Barrie her ""friendy-wendy"", which she pronounced as ""fwendy-wendy"". She died at the age of five and was buried, along with her family, in Cockayne Hatley. In Great Britain, South Africa,"
"Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904. In his 1911 novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"", Barrie referred to ""the Neverland"", and its many variations ""the Neverlands"", although the caption to one of Bedford's illustrations calls it ""The Never Never Land"". In the earliest drafts of Barrie's play, the island was called ""Peter's Never Never Never Land"", a name possibly influenced by ""the Never Never"", a contemporary term for outback Australia. In the 1928 published version of the script, the name was shortened to ""the Never Land"". Neverland has been featured prominently in subsequent works that either adapted Barrie's works"
"in the film industry as a writer and producer, and is still living in Canada. He is releasing three new albums through Angel Air Records (UK) and the first, ""No Charge"", will be released worldwide on October 6, 2014, both in digital and CD formats. He is not to be confused with J. J. Barrie (author and novelist of ""To Steal a Lady"" and ""To Kill a Priest""); nor J. M. Barrie, the Scottish born author of ""Peter Pan"". J. J. Barrie J. J. Barrie (born Barry Authors, July 7, 1933) is a Canadian songwriter and singer. He is best"
"of Melbourne, Australia, is named after this town. Kirriemuir Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. Its history reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it seems to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft, and some older houses still feature a ""witches stane"" to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born and buried here, and a statue of Peter Pan stands in the town square. The history of Kirriemuir extends to the early historical period and"
"either the ""Punch XI"" or the Allahakbarries, whose name, said Barrie, derived from the Arabic invocation meaning 'Heaven help us'. Cricket popped up frequently in his novels and short stories, and the anthology ""Wodehouse at the Wicket"", edited by Murray Hedgcock, is an attempt to capture the Master's writings about his favourite sport. J. M. Barrie and A. A. Milne – creators of ""Peter Pan"" and ""Winnie the Pooh"" respectively – also wrote about cricket. Bruce Hamilton wrote the novel ""Pro: An English tragedy"" in 1946. Also in 1946 came ""The Devil in Woodford Wells"", a novel by Harold Hobson"
"that it had been written by J. M. Barrie himself. These rumours persisted for years. A stage play of ""The Young Visiters"" by Mrs George Norman and Margaret Mackenzie was first performed in London in 1920, transferring shortly thereafter to New York. The New York production, at the Thirty-Ninth Street Theatre, received generally good reviews; one reviewer stated:""The Young Visiters"" ... has been turned into a play by the simple use of a pair of shears and a pot of paste. Probably no novel was ever so reverently dramatized since the world began. A musical based on the book by"
"Kirriemuir Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. Its history reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it seems to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft, and some older houses still feature a ""witches stane"" to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born and buried here, and a statue of Peter Pan stands in the town square. The history of Kirriemuir extends to the early historical period and it appears to have been a centre of"
"Castaways of Black Lake Island"". Barrie had two copies made, one of which he gave to Arthur, who misplaced it on a train. The only surviving copy is held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The character of Peter Pan was invented to entertain George and Jack. Barrie would say, to amuse them, that their little brother Peter could fly. He claimed that babies were birds before they were born; parents put bars on nursery windows to keep the little ones from flying away. This grew into a tale of a baby boy who did"
"She also had her poems published in newspapers. May Byron Mary Clarissa ""May"" Byron (""née"" Gillington; 1861 – 5 November 1936) was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron, M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare. Byron specialised in writing biographies of great artists, before going on to rewrite some of J. M. Barrie's works for younger readers and to write cookbooks. She was born Mary Clarissa Gillington in 1861 at Audlem, Cheshire, the first of four children of John Maurice Gillington and Sarah Dumville"
"and William and became known as ""J&W McNaught"". They later amalgamated with ""John Petrie"" becoming ""Petrie and McNaught"". William McNaught (Rochdale) William McNaught was a steam engine engineer from Rochdale, Lancashire, England. McNaught was born in Manchester and apprenticed with a Mr Mills of Heywood, Bury. He then worked in London for John & Thomas Rennie before coming to Alexander Petrie & Son, around 1838. McNaught became chief designer and superintendent at James Petrie's and designed a cutoff gear for use on a stationary steam engine. This was patented by James Petrie in 1844. Petrie started to build mill engines"
"the Takoma Park Citizens Association, was granted by the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment. The new location was a urban campus. The name was changed to Barrie School when upper grade classes were added, memorializing author J. M. Barrie, creator of the ""Peter Pan"" story. Barrie was described by Mrs. Seldin as a progressive, country day school, directly influenced by the work of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, and Anna Freud. It was an anomaly among private schools in Washington, D.C., for much of its history because of Mrs. Seldin's then-controversial beliefs about integration, creating a socioeconomically"
"was to me a wonderful phenomenon, and one that closely touched me. This singular intellectual poet has taken my Faustus to himself, and extracted from it the strangest nourishment for his hypochondriac humour. He has made use of the impelling principles in his own way, for his own purposes, so that no one of them remains the same; and it is particularly on this account that I cannot enough admire his genius."" Byron was apparently thankful for the compliment; however, he claimed that he had never read ""Faustus"". J. M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was aware of the"
"Under the legal definition he could be called blind, but Goodhue had enough field of vision to drive a car and gets along with special, powerful lenses. “I don’t drive a car anymore because they got too fast for me,"" he says. He said he used to feel like he needed to hide his 'blindness', but that ""as you get older and successful it doesn't make much difference."" Lyle Goodhue Lyle D. Goodhue (September 30, 1903 – September 18, 1981) was an internationally known inventor, research chemist and entomologist with 105 U. S. and 25 foreign patents. He invented the"
"Allahakbarries Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1890 to 1913. The team was named by Barrie, both after himself and in the mistaken belief that 'Allah hu akbar' meant 'Heaven help us' in Arabic (rather than 'God is great'). Notable figures to have featured for the side included Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, A. A. Milne, E. W. Hornung, Henry Justice Ford, A. E. W. Mason, Walter Raleigh, E. V. Lucas, Maurice Hewlett, Owen Seaman, Bernard Partridge, Augustine"
"subject of Barrie's impact on the Davies' marriage. Arthur Llewelyn Davies Arthur Llewelyn Davies (20 February 1863 – 19 April 1907) was a barrister, but is best known as the father of the boys who were the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. Davies was the second son of Mary Crompton and the Reverend John Llewelyn Davies, Vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale. His father was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an early alpinist who was the first ascendant of the third highest mountain in the Alps, and an outspoken foe of poverty and inequality who"
"May Byron Mary Clarissa ""May"" Byron (""née"" Gillington; 1861 – 5 November 1936) was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron, M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare. Byron specialised in writing biographies of great artists, before going on to rewrite some of J. M. Barrie's works for younger readers and to write cookbooks. She was born Mary Clarissa Gillington in 1861 at Audlem, Cheshire, the first of four children of John Maurice Gillington and Sarah Dumville Gillington. She was soon joined by a younger"
"restored in 1959. The headstone had a fallacious date of death (1876) which was later corrected to 1877. JD Wetherspoons pub in Wick, close to where Alexander Bain served his apprenticeship, is now named 'The Alexander Bain' after the inventor. Also, as a tribute to his inventions, the main BT building in Glasgow is named Alexander Bain House. One of the earliest examples of an electrically impulsed pendulum clock is on display at the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum. In 2016 he was awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award ""for his pioneering work in the transmission of images"". Alexander Bain (inventor) Alexander"
"South American cruise with his wife, Brown was admitted to a hospital in Argentina, where he died at the age of 78. James Cooke Brown Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game ""Careers"". Brown's novel ""The Troika Incident"" (Doubleday, 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world"
"The Little White Bird The Little White Bird is a British novel by J. M. Barrie, ranging in tone from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark, aggressive undertones. It was published in November 1902, by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Scribner's in the US, although the latter had released it serially in the monthly ""Scribner's Magazine"" from August to November. The book attained prominence and longevity thanks to several chapters written in a softer tone than the rest of the book, which introduced the character and mythology of Peter Pan. In 1906, those chapters were published"
"Peter Pan (peanut butter) Peter Pan is a brand of peanut butter produced by Conagra Brands and named after the J. M. Barrie character. The product was introduced by Swift & Company (originally through their ""Derby Foods"" subsidiary) in 1920 under the name ""E. K. Pond"". The product was renamed in 1928. Originally packaged in a tin can with a turn key and reclosable lid, the product's packaging was changed to glass jars because of metal shortages during World War II. In 1988, Peter Pan was the first brand of peanut butter to be sold in plastic jars. Peter Pan"
"J. M. Barrie's works, including the play ""Peter Pan"", the novel ""Peter and Wendy"", and the novel ""Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens"". Peter Pan is a free spirited and adventurous young boy who would not grow up. He can fly, and lives on the island called Neverland. He is described as ""a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees"". It is also stated that he still has all his baby teeth. The Lost Boys are a gang of young boys who fell out of their prams and were not claimed by their parents,"
"to analysis of the presidents and other world figures. Osmond also studied parapsychology. Later, Osmond became director of the Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry at the New Jersey Psychiatric Institute in Princeton, and then a professor of psychology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Osmond co-wrote eleven books and was widely published throughout his career. Osmond died of cardiac arrhythmia in 2004. Humphry Osmond Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1 July 1917 – 6 February 2004) was an English psychiatrist who expatriated to Canada, then moved to work in the United States. He is known for inventing the"
"""Peter Pan"" (1904), which began life as a play, is one of the best known stories in English. Barrie is often linked to the Kailyard movement and his early plays such as ""Quality Street"" (1901) and ""The Admirable Crichton"" (1902) deal with temporary inversions of the normal social order. His later works, such as ""Dear Brutus"" (1917) and ""Mary Rose"" (1920), focused on historical themes. After Barrie the most successful Scottish playwrights of the early twentieth century were John Brandane and James Bridie, the pseudonyms, respectively, of doctors John Macintyre (1869-1947) and Osborne Mavor (1888–1951). Brandane's plays were often humorous"
"with servants. They were befriended in 1897 by playwright/novelist J. M. Barrie, who first met George and Jack in Kensington Gardens during outings with their nurse (nanny) Mary Hodgson and infant Peter. He initially entertained them with his playful antics such as dancing with his dog Porthos, wiggling his ears, and performing feats with his eyebrows, and further endeared himself to them with his stories. He became a regular part of their lives, whom they came to call 'Uncle Jim'. In addition to the time the boys spent with Barrie in Kensington Gardens and at the Davies home, the family"
"Barrie & Jenkins Barrie & Jenkins was a small British publishing house that was formed in 1964 from the merger of the companies Herbert Jenkins (founded by English writer Herbert George Jenkins) and Barrie & Rockliff (whose managing director was Leopold Ullstein and whose editorial staff included John Bunting and John Pattison). One of their most notable authors was P. G. Wodehouse, whose titles came from the Herbert Jenkins portfolio of writers. The Barrie Group eventually comprised Barrie & Rockliff, the Cresset Press, Herbert Jenkins and Hammond & Hammond. The company had a short commercial history and was taken over"
"James Cooke Brown Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game ""Careers"". Brown's novel ""The Troika Incident"" (Doubleday, 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available"
"J. M. Barrie, had given his copyright to the hospital in 1929, later confirmed in his will. Although often incorrectly referred to as a perpetual copyright, it does not confer Great Ormond Street Hospital full intellectual property rights over the work. The amendment was proposed when Peter Pan's copyright first expired on 31 December 1987, 50 years after Barrie's death, which was the copyright term at that time. Following EU legislation extending the term to author's life + 70 years, Peter Pan's copyright was revived in 1996 and expired on 31 December 2007 in the UK, where Great Ormond Street"