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Thomas Cyril Mason (born July 8, 1939 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is a former American football running back in the National Football League.
He played college football for Tulane University.
He was selected first overall (second overall) by the expansion Minnesota Vikings in the 1961 NFL Draft. In six seasons with the Vikings, he rushed for 3,252 yards and scored 28 touchdowns. In 1967, he was signed by the Los Angeles Rams. He played with the Rams for four years, but accumulated only four touchdowns and less than 900 yards. He finished his career with the Washington Redskins in 1971 before retiring.
He ranks seventh in total rushing yards and sixth in rushing touchdowns for the Vikings.
He was formerly married to gymnast Cathy Rigby.
William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist and occasional singer, best known for his complex fingerstyle technique, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their readers' poll. In June 2010 Emmanuel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Emmanuel was born in Australia in 1955. He received his first guitar in 1959 at age four, being taught by his mother to accompany her playing lap steel guitar. At the age of 7 he heard Chet Atkins on the radio. He vividly remembers this moment and says it greatly inspired him.
By the age of 6, in 1961, he was a working professional musician. Recognizing the musical talents of Tommy and his brother Phil, their father created a family band, sold the family home and took his family on the road. With the family living in two station wagons, much of Emmanuel’s childhood was spent touring Australia with his family, playing rhythm guitar, and rarely going to school. The family found it difficult living on the road; they were poor but never hungry, never settling in one place. His father would often drive ahead, organize interviews, advertising and finding the local music shop where they'd have an impromptu concert the next day. Eventually the New South Wales Department of Education insisted that the Emmanuel children needed to go to school regularly.
Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter. He is a 12 time winner of the Academy of Country Music Guitarist of the Year Award and a two time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year.
Brent Mason was born on July 13, 1959, in Van Wert, Ohio. At five years old, he taught himself to play guitar by ear. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee after graduating from high school, in order to pursue a career in country music. Eventually, he was discovered by country guitarist Chet Atkins, who invited him to play on his Stay Tuned album. From there, Mason went on to play on several other artists' albums, including those of George Strait, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, David Gates, and Neil Diamond. Mason also co-wrote singles for Clinton Gregory ("Play, Ruby, Play") and McBride & the Ride ("Hurry Sundown").
Actors: Tex Palmer (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Herman Hack (actor), John Ince (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor), Johnny Luther (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Jack O'Shea (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor),
Plot: "Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town, close to the Mexican border. Davis falls in love with Mary Mason, daughter of a Border Patrolman. Mr. Mason is murdered, and Davis sets out to find the killer, and thinks the town's richest citizen might know something about it.
Keywords: 1890s, alias, archive-footage, arizona, b-movie, b-western, bank, banker, border-patrol, carnivalActors: Milburn Stone (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Walter Byron (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Otis Harlan (actor), Otto Hoffman (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Stuart Erwin (actor), Tully Marshall (actor), Bruce Mitchell (actor), Harry Tyler (actor),
Plot: Oliver Boggs, a typical office drone, with no success in sight, who can spout statistics about anything and everything, wins $1500 in a bean-guessing contest at the movie theatre, quits his job and sets forth for the seedy, down-at-the-heels town of Peckham Falls. There he buys a barrel factory and falls in love with Irene Lee, the snobbish niece of crusty old Morton Ross, the town's only rich man and owner of the closed canneries. Oleander Tubbs and her inventor father Angus, who sold Oliver the factory, tell him it has no future but he disagrees and says he will have everything booming again. Oleander thinks he is daffy but she and her father agree to help him. Angus invents a collapsible barrel and Oliver, seeing fame and fortune just ahead, spends all of his money just keeping the factory going. Oliver persuades old man Ross to re-open the canneries and to use the ground-breaking barrels and things appear to be going okay, until Dennis Andrews, Ross' slick attorney, tries to double-cross both Ross and Oliver by bilking Angus out of the patent rights to the barrel.
Keywords: 1930s, americana, audience, b-movie, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cannery, cigarette-smoking, clerk, contest, embarrassmentActors: Ralph Dietrich (editor), Bill Elliott (actor), C. Henry Gordon (actor), John Halliday (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Carl Stockdale (actor), Clara Blandick (actress), Sally Blane (actress), Dorothy Mackaill (actress), Arthur Kay (composer), Samuel Kaylin (composer), George Brent (actor), Joel McCrea (actor), Georges Renavent (actor), Willard Robertson (actor),
Genres: Romance,