Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was a conservative American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Harvey's programs reached as many as 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers.

Career

Early years

Harvey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The son of a policeman killed in 1921, Harvey made radio receivers as a young boy. He attended Tulsa Central High School where a teacher, Isabelle Ronan, was "impressed by his voice." On her recommendation, he started working at KVOO in Tulsa in 1933, when he was 14. His first job was helping clean up. Eventually he was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and the news.

While attending the University of Tulsa, he continued working at KVOO, first as an announcer, and later as a program director. Harvey, at age nineteen spent three years as a station manager for KFBI AM, now known as KFDI, a radio station that once had studios in Salina, Kansas. From there, he moved to a newscasting job at KOMA in Oklahoma City, and then to KXOK, in St. Louis in 1938, where he was Director of Special Events and a roving reporter.

Paul Harvey (born 28 August 1968 in Glasgow) is a journeyman Scottish former professional association footballer.

Paul Harvey began his professional career in England with Manchester United in 1986-87.

Harvey then returned to his native Scotland where he spent the rest of his playing career. He first joined Clydebank, the club of his longest service.

He then had spells of various duration with each of Airdrie, Raith Rovers, Dumbarton, Livingston, Queen of the South, Motherwell, Stenhousemuir, Airdrie United and Queen's Park. His final season in senior football was 2005/06. Paul is now a coach at U21's side South Camlachie .

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Paul Harvey (September 10, 1882 – December 5, 1955) was an American actor who appeared in at least 177 films.

Primarily a character actor, Harvey began his career on stage and in silent films. He appeared in the Broadway and original film versions of The Awful Truth, then had supporting roles in many Hollywood films, often portraying dignified executives or authority figures.

He was a vacationing businessman whose car is commandeered by fugitive killer Humphrey Bogart in the 1935 crime drama The Petrified Forest and the minister who marries Spencer Tracy's daughter Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950 comedy Father of the Bride and its sequel. In the thriller Side Street, Harvey played a married man forced to pay $30,000 in blackmail money after having an affair.

Besides his numerous films, Harvey appeared in 1950s television series such as December Bride, My Little Margie, and Father Knows Best before his death from a coronary thrombosis in 1955.

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Sir Henry Paul Harvey KCMG, born Henry Paul Harvey Durant (1869-1948) was a British diplomat and editor of literary reference works. He compiled The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), the first of the Oxford Companions series.

Life

Henry Paul Harvey Durant was the illegitimate child of the French sculptor Henri Triqueti and the English sculptor Susan Durant. After his mother died, he was brought up by Blanche Lee Childe, his aunt or half-sister; when Childe also died in 1886, he was sponsored by Augusta, Lady Gregory with help from Henry James. Educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford, he married Ethel Frances Persse, daughter of Col. Edward Persse, in 1896.

Harvey was (Assistant) Private Secretary to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, from 1895 to 1900. He was Egyptian Financial Advisor from 1907 to 1912 and 1919 to 1920. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1911.

Prompted by a suggestion of Kenneth Sisam at the Oxford University Press, Harvey compiled the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the first of the Oxford Companions. He subsequently compiled the Companion to Classical Literature, and was working on the Companion to French Literature at the time of his death.

Paul Harvey (born 7 May 1960) is a British musician and Stuckist artist, whose work was used to promote their 2004 show at the Liverpool Biennial. His paintings draw on pop art and the work of Alphonse Mucha, and often depict celebrities, including Madonna.

Life and career

Paul Harvey was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. He attended Burton Grammar School (1971–78) and North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1978–82) for Foundation Art and BA (Hons) Design. In 1982 he moved to London and played in post-punk bands including Happy Refugees; in 1986 he moved to Newcastle to join Pauline Murray's band. During this time, he co-published-and-drew Mauretania Comics with comics artist Chris Reynolds, and also taught graffiti art.

In 2001, he became a full-time lecturer in graphic design at North Tyneside College (now Tyne Metropolitan College, within The Creative Studios department). The same year, he joined the Stuckism art group, founding a Newcastle branch. In 2002, he joined Murray's re-formed punk band Penetration; he curated the show, Stuck in Newcastle, at the Newcastle Arts Centre, and was a joint winner of the Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show 2002.

Paul Harvey (1918–2009) was an American radio broadcaster.

Paul Harvey may also refer to:

Paul Harvey (born 10 November 1964 in Islington) is an English professional feather/super feather/lightweight boxer of the 1980s and '90s, who won the Commonwealth super featherweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Board (WBB) featherweight title against Steve Robinson, and Wilson Docherty, his professional fighting weight varied from 125 lb (57 kg; 8 st 13 lb), i.e. featherweight to 133 lb (60 kg; 9 st 7 lb), i.e. lightweight.

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