Besides, pretty much every time Sandy's gal Friday, Sarah (a priceless Nicole Rodenburg), shows up, she's wearing a new outfit.
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Walker-Meador (pronounced MED-er) was the association's first employee, hired as a secretary and office manager — "a gal Friday," as she once put it — at a time when country music was fighting to be heard.
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In an adjacent section called "New York Portrait," we move indoors, with a 1940 Hopper sketch of a male office worker and a secretary sharing a tense, possibly steamy evening of overtime and a 1978 photo of Cindy Sherman impersonating a perky gal Friday whose only obvious eccentricity is wearing blackout glasses while she types.
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From the moment she makes her first appearance in Feud: Bette and Joan, you can't take your eyes off Hoffman's tightly-wound but infinitely patient Mamacita — Crawford's sternly Teutonic live-in housekeeper, valet, mother confessor and all around Gal Friday, who is never far from the movie star's side and always faithfully and fiercely on her side, even when Crawford believes no one else is.
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At first, the designers of word processing systems combined existing technologies with emerging ones to develop stand-alone equipment, creating a new business distinct from the emerging world of the personal computer. The concept of word processing arose from the more general data processing, which since the 1950s had been the application of computers to business administration.W.A. Kleinschrod, "The 'Gal Friday' is a Typing Specialist Now," Administrative Management vol. 32, no.
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Nicholas Afonsky drew the strip for most of 1938, followed by Austin Briggs until 1940. took over the art in 1940 and began writing the strip as well in 1942, devising the name Phil Corrigan. The name Phil Corrigan was inspired by Phil Cardigan, a character in one of Graff's earlier comic strips, The Adventures of Patsy. Graff also gave X-9 more of a personal life, introducing Belinda "Linda" Reed as Corrigan's gal Friday and early romantic interest in 1940.
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Blackie's friendly adversaries were Inspector Farraday of the police (played in all the films and the radio series by Richard Lane) and his assistant, Sergeant Matthews. Matthews was originally played as a hapless victim of circumstance by Walter Sande; he was replaced by Lyle Latell, who played it dumber, and then by comedian Frank Sully, who played it even dumber. Blackie and Runt were often assisted in their endeavors by their friends: the cheerful but easily flustered millionaire Arthur Manleder (almost always played by Lloyd Corrigan; Harry Hayden and Harrison Greene each played the role once), and the streetwise pawnbroker Jumbo Madigan (played by Cy Kendall or Joseph Crehan). A variety of actresses including Rochelle Hudson, Harriet Hilliard, Adele Mara and Ann Savage took turns playing various gal-Friday characters.
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He later appeared on several Jimmy Witherspoon recordings made for the Modern label between 1946 and 1951 with Gal Friday (vocals); Mitchell "Tiny" Webb (guitar); Chuck Norris (guitar); Frank Sleet (alto saxophone); Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Jay McShann (piano); Maxwell Davis (tenor saxophone); Buddy Floyd (tenor saxophone) and Gene Gilbeaux, (piano). According to Witherspoon, "Cake Wichard got me that major label recording contract,..." In 1947, he also recorded for Modern with his own line-up, the Al Wichard Sextette, featuring vocals by Big Duke Henderson. A member of the King Perry Orchestra in 1947, they recorded backing Hoagy Carmichael in Los Angeles. Between 1947 and 1951, Wichard recorded with Gene Phillips and his Rhythm Aces, again for Modern Records with the guitarist Gene Phillips, plus Lloyd Glenn, Maxwell Davis, Marshal Royal, Jake Porter and Jack McVea.
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Her students have placed at the top levels in numerous national competitions, including the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and the United States of America Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS).Chesapeake Math Program Asaro is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government as to future trends affecting national security.Sigmaforum.org She is also known for her advocacy of bringing girls and women into STEM fields and for increased diversity, and for challenging gender roles and literary expectations in her fiction.Planet Diversity, by BidishaDanger Gal Friday: Primary Sauscony "Soz" Valdoria She has been an invited speaker or visiting professor for various institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard, Georgetown University, NASA, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The Global Competitiveness Forum in Saudi Arabia, the New Zealand National ConText Writer's program, the University of Maryland, the US Naval Academy, and many other institutions.Nasa.
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