"building for such purposes as a video recording studio, a sports centre and a multi-entertainment complex. None of these came to fruition for one reason or another. However, in 1979, the owner of the theatre wanted to sell the land and so would not renew the lease and without funds to find another base, members were widely resigned to the closure of both the building and the company. By chance, Bob Hope, who was born in Craigton Road, Eltham, was in the UK to promote the Bob Hope British Classic Golf Tournament when he heard about the plight of the"
"Capital"", the ""Des Moines Daily News"", the ""Sioux City Tribune""; and Chicago newspapers the ""Inter-Ocean"", the ""Record-Herald"", and the ""Chicago Tribune"". While in Watseka, Illinois during March 1910, he accepted an opportunity to become editor of the Iroquios County Times-Democrat. Following his marriage to Ferne in 1912, he purchased the ""Times-Democrat"" and became its publisher. In his 16-page narrative ""Lanphere's Confession"", using the pen name Edward Beckly, the author recounts his secret assignment from Walter Howey, City Editor of the ""Chicago Tribune"" to travel to Mount Pleasant, Iowa to meet with Iowa Wesleyan University president Edwin A Schell. His objective"
"John Weber, an American economist. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York City. In 1968 she resigned from her job as secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, where she made $1,000 a night. A year later she opened her own brothel, the Vertical Whorehouse, and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971 she was arrested for prostitution by New York Police and forced to leave the United States. In 1971 Hollander published a memoir, ""The Happy Hooker: My Own Story."" Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations"
"Faulkner. Together, James and Lenore founded the New Hope Foundation ""to foster world peace and understanding"". Ruth married Jacob Billikopf, a Philadelphia labor arbitrator 16 years her senior; like her mother, Ruth died young of cancer, at age 38. Drawing deeply from their childhood experiences in the Adirondacks, the younger boys, Bob and George, became noted conservationists. The sprawling Bob Marshall Wilderness, comprising over a million acres (4000 km²) of pristine wilderness straddling the continental divide in northwestern Montana, is named after Bob, who was director of the Forestry Division of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, head of the"
"Confession of a Murderer Confession of a Murderer () is a 1936 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. It has the subtitle ""Told in One Night"" (""Erzählt in einer Nacht""). The narrative focuses on an exile Russian, Golubchik, who tells what he claims to be his life's story to an alcoholic writer. James A. Snead of ""The New York Times"" wrote in 1985: ""Roth's night-story implicitly identifies the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Golubchik's private 'tragedy of banality.' His futile search for paternity, homeland and revenge, ranging over 'Old Europe' from Odessa to Paris, is an ambivalent elegy"
"Eugene Debs Hartke Eugene Debs Hartke is the narrator and central character of the novel ""Hocus Pocus"" by Kurt Vonnegut. He is a graduate of West Point, a veteran of the Vietnam War, a tenured college professor, a teacher at a correctional institute, and finally a prisoner, falsely accused of masterminding the largest prison break in American history. He is widely known as ""The Preacher"" for his masterful eloquence and his impeccable habit of never using blasphemy or profanity. Taking careful account of his life, Hartke realizes he has killed exactly as many people as he has had sex with."
"to a lost epoch. The double narration creates an air of evasiveness and manipulation that mirrors the intrigues of the state bureaucracies Golubchik encounters."" Confession of a Murderer Confession of a Murderer () is a 1936 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. It has the subtitle ""Told in One Night"" (""Erzählt in einer Nacht""). The narrative focuses on an exile Russian, Golubchik, who tells what he claims to be his life's story to an alcoholic writer. James A. Snead of ""The New York Times"" wrote in 1985: ""Roth's night-story implicitly identifies the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Golubchik's"
"an overall adjustment rating on a five-point scale, and to distinguish in pairs which participant was homosexual and heterosexual. The three evaluators concluded that in terms of adjustment, there were no differences between the members of each group. In 1956, Hooker presented the results of her research in a paper at the American Psychological Association's convention in Chicago.[2] The NIMH was so impressed with the evidence Hooker found they granted her the NIMH Research Career Award in 1961 to continue her work. Her studies contributed to a change in the attitudes of the psychological community toward homosexuality and to the"
"""Confessions of a Plumber's Mate"", ""Confessions of a Private Dick"", ""Confessions From a Luxury Liner"", ""Confessions From a Nudist Colony"", ""Confessions of a Milkman"", ""Confessions of an Ice Cream Man"" and ""Confessions From a Haunted House"". Wood told an interviewer for ""The Independent"" in 2013: ""The books, and later the films, got terrible reviews, but they were successful, and success was its own currency"". Wood told ""Penthouse"" that each ""Confessions"" book took approximately five weeks to complete. ""They were funny then, and they are funny now"", Wood asserted in 2013. ""Then again, I always did like smut."" Sphere Books published"
"Something Happened Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after ""Catch-22""). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche. While there is an ongoing plot about Slocum preparing for a promotion at work, most of the book focuses on detailing various events from his life, ranging from early childhood to his predictions for the future, often in non-chronological order and with little if anything to connect one anecdote to the next."
"1920. Lancelyn Green asserts that Hope was ""a first-class amateur but only a second-class professional writer. Hope married Elizabeth Somerville (1885/6–1946) in 1903 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was knighted in 1918 for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I. He published an autobiographical book, ""Memories and Notes"", in 1927. Hope died of throat cancer at the age of 70 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. There is a blue plaque on his house in Bedford Square, London. Anthony Hope Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9"
"Bob Hope Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven ""Road"" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles, and was"
"America. Since founding OneHope, Hazel Hoskins, who was a partner in the ministry, worked closely with the organization, especially in ministry to girls and women. Hazel authored a book, ""…And I Sat There"" in February 2014. On June 22, 2015, Hazel died at the age of 81. Bob currently resides in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. He has three grown children and eight grandchildren. Bob Hoskins has survived cancer 3 times and is also partially blind. Bob Hoskins (philanthropist) Bob Hoskins (born April 15, 1936) is an internationally known evangelist based out of Pompano Beach, Florida. He founded OneHope (formerly Book of"
"Confessions of a Crap Artist Confessions of a Crap Artist is a 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick, originally written in 1959. Dick wrote about a dozen non-science fiction novels in the period from 1948 to 1960; this is the only one published during his lifetime. The novel chronicles a bitter and complex marital conflict in suburban 1950s Northern California. Each chapter is written in alternating perspective switching between first person perspective from the main characters as well as chapters written from a third person perspective. The novel contains only small amounts of the complex mystical and science fiction concepts"
"is a member of the board of advisers for the Hollywood Horror Museum. In August 20, 1996 appearance on the radio call-in show ""Loveline"", Barker stated that during his teens he had several relationships with older women, and came to identify himself as homosexual by 18 or 19 years old. Barker has been openly gay since the early 1990s. His relationship with John Gregson lasted from 1975 until 1986. It was during this period, with the support that Gregson provided, that Barker was able to write the ""Books of Blood"" series and ""The Damnation Game"". He later spent thirteen years"
"later formed a relationship with Mary Frances Taylor. State law prohibited interracial marriage, but they lived openly as a couple to the end of his life and had a family. Of majority European ancestry, their son John Hope was European in appearance and could have passed for white. But, he identified with the African American community and devoted his life to its education and advancement in the postwar segregated South. Hope was eight when his father died, and his family struggled financially; the executors failed to carry out his father's plans for support of him and his mother. The youth"
"deal of it was a social climate. A family feeling came out of it, a great nonsexual emphasis...It was a brand new idea."" In 1953, the Communist ties of several of the Fifth Order led the leadership, including Gruber, to resign. Through his studies at Occidental, Gruber met the author Christopher Isherwood, who in turn introduced him to W. H. Auden. Isherwood also introduced Gruber to his landlady, Evelyn Hooker. Hooker, a psychologist, pioneered research into sexual orientation that contributed to the removal of homosexuality as a mental illness from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Growing increasingly"
"Addict Visits the USA"" (1955), ""Golf Addict Invades Wales"" (1969) and ""Golf Addict in Gaucho Land"" (1970) describe his golfing experiences and encounters in the British Isles, Sweden, Japan, China, Russia, South America and the United States. He illustrated his books with his own cartoons. Comedian Bob Hope contributed an introduction to his cartoon collection ""Addict in Bunkerland"", as did Scottish golfer Ronnie Shade to his collection ""Golf Addicts Galore"". One reviewer said of him: ""George Houghton's ""Addict"" is the ""little man"" of golf who likes to think himself, and is, the backbone of the game. Golf cuts us all"
"He is the father of the violinist Daniel Hope. The couple would eventually divorce. Hope worked briefly as a journalist before leaving on a ""self-imposed"" exile to London, England. His autobiographical piece, ""White Boy Running"", chronicles this time of Hope's life. Hope's poetry was first published in ""Whitewashes"", a poetry book that was released in 1971. In 1974, his poetry was published as ""Cape Drives"", a collection of original prose. Hope's first novel, ""A Separate Development"", was published in 1981. The novel was banned in South Africa for its overt criticisms of the Apartheid government. Hope's second novel, ""Kruger's Alp,"""
"rest of his life. On January 4, 1904, under the false name John Warren, Hope appeared before the very judge who had originally sentenced him to Sing Sing 25 years before. One of an estimated fifty men accused of bookmaking, the result of District Attorney William T. Jerome's campaign against the city's ""poolsellers"", he was recognized by Judge Cowing. When the verdict resulted in a hung jury, he allowed Hope to go free on his old bail bond rather than return him to the Tombs as requested by the prosecution. Johnny Hope died in 1906, a year after his father."
"""The Gaia Dialogues"" (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting that the Earth (Gaia) is a conscious being, a living entity who is shifting its magnetic poles as part of a plan to defend itself from desolation caused by its human children. Murry Hope Murry Hope (17 September 1929 – 25 October 2012) was an English writer and occultist. Considered a Wiccan priestess and a New Age author she wrote sundry books on the topics of psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft, the Sirius star system, et al. Hope's mother left her after she was born and"
"occasions. Hope begins to suffer from an aortic aneurysm, causing him to leave the mountains to earn money and recuperate. When he returns several years later, he learns that Drebber and Stangerson have fled Salt Lake City after a schism between the Mormons. Hope searches the United States, eventually tracking them to Cleveland; the pair then flees to Europe, eventually landing in London. This is the story the handcuffed Hope willingly tells to Holmes, Lestrade, Gregson, and Watson. In London, Hope became a cabby and eventually found Drebber and Stangerson at the train station in Euston about to depart to"
"think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A."" Leonard, Darwin's last surviving child, dismissed Lady Hope's account as a ""hallucination"" (1930) and ""purely fictitious"" (1934). Lady Hope gave the fullest account of her story in a letter written (circa 1919–20) to S. James Bole, who first published it in 1940. The story became a popular legend, and Hope's claims were republished as late as October 1955 in the ""Reformation Review"" and in the ""Monthly Record"" of the Free Church of Scotland in February 1957. In 1925, J. W. C. Fegan, an evangelist and sometime associate of Lady"
"he testified against his former commander, General Scott, in the court-martial for insubordination of Gideon Johnson Pillow. Hooker struggled with the tedium of peacetime life, and reportedly passed the time with liquor, ladies, and gambling. He settled in Sonoma County, California, as a farmer and land developer, and ran unsuccessfully for election to represent the region in the California legislature. He was obviously unhappy and unsuccessful in his civilian pursuits because, in 1858, he wrote to Secretary of War John B. Floyd to request that his name ""be presented to the president Buchanan as a candidate for a lieutenant colonelcy"","
"Hocus Pocus (novel) Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son? is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Like many of Vonnegut's novels, ""Hocus Pocus"" uses a non-linear narrative and has a plot centered on a major event heavily alluded to until the final chapters. The main character is Eugene Debs Hartke, a Vietnam War veteran, college professor, and carillonneur who realizes that he has killed exactly as many people as the number of women he has had sex with. The character's name is a homage to American labor and political leader Eugene V. Debs and anti-war senator Vance Hartke, both"
"at every level of society and that their wealth and power would not necessarily insulate them, leading them to quietly halt the investigation. D'Emilio and Freedman, who are historians of sexuality, situate the Boise investigations within national Cold War politics that led to a national obsession with homosexuality across the US. The first arrests in the scandal came on October 31, 1955, following an investigation by private detective Howard Dice at the behest of an unnamed client. Those arrested were Ralph Cooper, a 33-year-old shoe repairman; Charles Brokaw, a 29-year-old freight worker; and Vernon Cassel, a 51-year-old store clerk. Cooper"
"photographer when Hugh Hefner, the publisher, rejected 500 of Hooker's photographs for a centerfold. Hooker retired from ""Playboy"" to Sundance, Utah to work as an architect. He was a regular at the Sundance Film Festival. Hooker died in Michigan on January 3, 2015, at the age of 86. A book series on imaginary heiress Christina van Bell was written by ""Blakely St. James"", a pseudonym for multiple authors including Robin Leonard, Charles Platt, Ted Gottfried, William E Butterworth, and Hart Williams. Hooker provided the photographs used on the front and back covers. The model for all the books is Jill"
"on 12 May of pulmonary consumption. He was buried in the cemetery at Highgate. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in June 1832, and was a corresponding member of several foreign societies. When he retired, his professional income was £4,000 per year. He was a member of the Church of England, and had strong religious convictions. In 1829 Hope began to publish a series of papers, building up to a projected work on the heart. Four papers on ""Aneurisms of the Aorta, based on Observations as House Physician and House Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh"", appeared"
"and Louisiana over the previous year. Some of the book's proceeds are donated to charity. The book topped ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list on June 18, 2006. Cooper has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus ""Stan"" Stokowski (b. 1950), and Christopher Stokowski (b. 1952), from Gloria Vanderbilt's ten-year marriage to the conductor Leopold Stokowski. He said to Oprah Winfrey—while promoting his book—that he had suffered from dyslexia as a child. In August 2007, he confirmed his ""mild dyslexia"" on ""The Tonight Show"" to Jay Leno, who also has dyslexia. Cooper is openly gay; according to ""The New York Times"","
"The Happy Hooker The Happy Hooker: My Own Story is a best-selling memoir by Xaviera Hollander, a call girl, published in 1971. It sold over 20 million copies. Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations of the book's contents, came up with the title, while Yvonne Dunleavy either transcribed the book or ghostwrote it. Hollander's book inspired a series of movies, starting with 1975's ""The Happy Hooker,"" which starred Lynn Redgrave. The film was followed by two sequels: 1977's ""The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington"" and 1980's ""The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood."" In the sequels the role of Hollander was played"
"from an unsuspecting victim with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago to teach him ""the big con"". Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan. Corrupt Joliet police Lieutenant William Snyder confronts Hooker, revealing Lonnegan's involvement and demanding part of Hooker's cut. Having already spent his share, Hooker pays Snyder in counterfeit bills. Lonnegan's men murder both the courier and Luther, and Hooker flees for his life to Chicago."
"imagination which could come up with something really good."" Wood was also responsible for the ""Confessions"" series of novels and their film adaptations, written under the pseudonym Timothy Lea. They are ""Confessions of a Window Cleaner"", ""Confessions of a Driving Instructor"", ""Confessions from a Holiday Camp"", ""Confessions From a Hotel"", ""Confessions of a Travelling Salesman"", ""Confessions of a Film Extra"", ""Confessions From the Clink"", ""Confessions of a Private Soldier"", ""Confessions From the Pop Scene"" (adapted into the movie ""Confessions of a Pop Performer""), ""Confessions From a Health Farm"", ""Confessions From the Shop Floor"", ""Confessions of a Long Distance Lorry Driver"","
"Bob Hoskins (philanthropist) Bob Hoskins (born April 15, 1936) is an internationally known evangelist based out of Pompano Beach, Florida. He founded OneHope (formerly Book of Hope International) in 1987, with a mission to provide a message of hope to children and youth through various forms of media. He has spent the majority of his life serving as a missionary, reaching people in countries in the Middle East, Africa, South America, Asia and Europe. Hoskins has devoted over 70 years to various ministries. Hoskins was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Charles and Lucille Hoskins. By the time he was"