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HMS Ulysses was the debut novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.Originally published in 1955, it was also released by Fontana Books in 1960. MacLean's experiences in the Royal Navy during World War II provided the background and the Arctic convoys to Murmansk provided the basis for the story, which was written at a publisher's request after he'd won a short-story competition the previous year.
William Dale Fries Jr. (November 15, 1928 – April 1, 2022) was an American commercial artist who won several Clio Awards for his advertising campaigns. He was also a musician remembered for his character C. W. McCall, a truck-driving country singer that he created for a series of bread commercials while working for an Omaha advertising agency as an art director.
Convoy, a character from the Vigilante 8 video games; LDV Convoy, a cargo/passenger van manufactured by LDV; Lock convoy, a performance problem that can occur when using locks for concurrency control in a multithreaded application; Convoy (company), a Seattle-based trucking startup; Convoy, an indie video game
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [1]
William Kimber, Stephen Roskill and John Litchfield also gave evidence: a film taken by Litchfield hours after the convoy's scattering was shown in court to rebut Irving's claim that Broome was "a broken man" after the convoy scattered. [5] [6] On 10 February, the plaintiff rested his case; the defendants declined to call any evidence or ...
Convoy is a 1978 American road action comedy film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair and Franklyn Ajaye. The film is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song " Convoy " by C. W. McCall .
The following year, another friend of the farming community, Lisa Messenger, died, so the tractor convoy was repeated to honour her. This year's convoy was also in memory of Stuart Wainwright, who ...
It is an answer song to "Convoy", a major hit in 1976. The song was a gay-themed takeoff on the citizens band radio fad [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and featured a "smokey" ( highway patrolman ) pretending to be a gay truck driver over the CB radio; the patrolman's masquerade distracts the lead trucker in a convoy who is listening to him, allowing the highway ...