Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American system engineer and aeronautical innovator, earned renown for his contributions to many noteworthy aircraft designs, especially the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, but also including the P-38 Lightning, P-80 Shooting Star, and F-104 Starfighter among others. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an "organizing genius". He played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, including several that were honored with the prestigious Collier Trophy, acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers in the history of aviation. In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight, Aviation Week & Space Technology ranked Johnson 8th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace.Hall Hibbard, Kelly's Lockheed boss, once remarked to Ben Rich: "That damned Swede can actually see air".
Lizzie Miles was the stage name taken by Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (March 31, 1895 – March 17, 1963), an African American blues singer.
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in a dark skinned Francophone Creole ("Creole of Color") family. She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a 'blues singer', since she sang a wide repertory of music.
In the mid 1920s she spent time performing in Paris before returning to the United States. She suffered a serious illness and retired from the music industry in the 1930s. Not before she recorded "My Man O' War", described by one music journalist as "a composition stuffed with rococo suggestiveness". In the 1940s she returned to New Orleans, where Joe Mares encouraged her to sing again—which she did, but always from in front of, or beside the stage, since she said she had vowed in a prayer not to go on stage again if she recovered from her illness. Miles was based in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, then again returned to New Orleans where she recorded with several Dixieland and traditional jazz bands and made regular radio broadcasts, often performing with Bob Scobey or George Lewis.
Victor Goines (born 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist and received his Masters in Music at Virginia Commonwealth University. Goines is the director of jazz studies at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. He previously served as first artistic director of the Juilliard School's jazz program from 2000 until 2007. He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. Goines has collaborated with such artists as Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Green, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, B.B. King, Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, James Moody, Dianne Reeves, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder. He has performed on more than 20 recordings, including the soundtracks for three Ken Burns documentaries and the films Undercover Blues, When Night Falls on Manhattan, and Rosewood. He composed more than 50 original works, including Jazz at Lincoln Center commissions. He has also served on the faculties of Florida A&M University, University of New Orleans, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Goines is an artist for Conn-Selmer and Vandoren. He is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
George Porter, Jr. (born December 26, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a musician best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville, Porter formed the group in the mid 60's and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of funk. The Meters disbanded in 1977, but reformed in 1989. Today the original group still plays the occasional reunion but the Funky Meters, of which Porter and Neville are still members, most prominently keeps the spirit alive.
Porter continues to be a vital part of the New Orleans' music scene. He has his own group the Runnin' Pardners, and also other projects such as The Trio with Johnny Vidacovich, New Orleans Social Club, Deep Fried and Porter Batiste Stoltz. He is frequently in demand, and has been performing and recording with wide range of artists including Dr. John, Paul McCartney, Robbie Robertson, Willy DeVille, Robert Palmer, Patti Labelle, Jimmy Buffett, David Byrne, Johnny Adams, Harry Connick Jr., Earl King, Warren Haynes, Tori Amos, and Snooks Eaglin among many others.
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.
Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry. He then served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.
Porter then went on to do research at Cambridge under Norrish where he began the work that ultimately led to them becoming Nobel Laureates.
His original research in developing the technique of flash photolysis to obtain information on short-lived molecular species provided the first evidence of free radicals. His later research utilised the technique to study the minutiae of the light reactions of photosynthesis, with particular regard to possible applications to a hydrogen economy, of which he was a strong advocate.
He was Assistant Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1953–4, where he studied the phototendering of dyed cellulose fabrics in sunlight.
Love Don't Co$t A Thing but it pays to be yourself
Paris Morgan: I made you Al, I will work overtime to break you Alvin!
Paris Morgan: Come down out of that tree.
Paris Morgan: Look, Al, I think you're starting to feel yourself way to much.::Alvin Johnson: I do not! Who told you that, Walter? My mother said you'll go blind!::Paris Morgan: Look, whatever!
Paris Morgan: You know Al, there's something we've been avoiding, all day. Something I think maybe we oughta do.::Alvin Johnson: I think you're right. This may sound kinda silly. How do we do it?::Paris Morgan: [laughs] Well... just go for it. Ya know? [they turn and look at each other, Paris expecting Al to kiss her]::Alvin Johnson: We'll break up first thing tomorrow morning. In the hallway, so everyone can see. I mean make a big scene. But, a dignified scene. 'Cause you know we got to protect our reps.
Alvin Johnson: Morning dime pieces!
Aretha Johnson: Mama! Alvin's taking drugs!
Aretha Johnson: School? Liar! Today's Senior Ditch Day.::Alvin Johnson: You know what? Lil' biscuit-head is right.
Mia: This ain't Burger King! You can't always have it your way!
Alvin Johnson: [Alvin reads Paris' burnt Sean John jacket] "Sean Jo!"::Kenneth Warman: Could be Asian?::Walter Colley: [in a Japanese accent] Sean Jo. [regular voice] It smell like burnt Paris Morgan now.::Kenneth Warman: Yeah that's how hot she is!
Paris Morgan: Look, Al, I think you're starting to feel yourself a little to much.::Alvin Johnson: [panicky] I do not do that! Who told you that, Walter? My mother said you'll go blind!::Paris Morgan: Look, whatever!