David Dick (Kentucky)
David or Dave Dick may refer to: * Dave Dick (Australian footballer) (1901–1982), Australian rules footballer * David Dick (soccer), American soccer player *Dave Dick (jockey) (1924–2001), British jockey *"David Dick", 1834 story by Roger de Beauvoir See also *David Dicks David Griffiths Dicks, OAM, CitWA, (born 6 October 1978) is an Australian sailor. He became the youngest person to sail non-stop and solo around the world. In February 1996, at the age of 17, he set out from Fremantle, Western Australia in his ...

Dave Dick (Australian Footballer)
David George Dick (8 January 1901 – 19 June 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Essendon and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Dick, a full-forward, kicked 104 goals for Hampton in 1920. The following year he joined St Kilda, where he would make a single appearance, in round 17 against Richmond. He then returned to Hampton and remained there until 1925, when he was cleared to Essendon. In just his second game for Essendon, against Carlton at Windy Hill, Dick kicked six goals. Dick was at a third club in 1926, Footscray, for which he played four games. Later in the decade he played with Sandringham. He had a brother, Fred, that played for Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... Their father, Alick, was a ...
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David Dick (soccer)
David Dick is an American retired soccer player who spent eleven seasons in the American Soccer League. In 1941, he began his career with the Philadelphia Americans, winning the league title with them in 1942 and 1944. He then moved to the Philadelphia Nationals where he finished his career. During his time with the Nationals, he won three straight titles from 1949 to 1951. The nationals twice finished runner up in the National Challenge Cup during Dick's tenure with the team. In 1949, they lost to Morgan Strasser and in 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ..., they fell to the Harmarville Hurricanes. In 1953, Dick was part of an American Soccer League All Star team which participated in a tournament in Guatemala and another in Bermuda. References {{DEFA ...
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Dave Dick (jockey)
David Victor Dick (8 March 1924 – 15 February 2001) was a British jockey who competed at the Grand National from 1951 to 1965, winning the race in 1956 on E.S.B. He was the only jockey ever to win both races of the Lincoln-Grand National Spring Double and he holds the record, nine times, for the number of clear rounds on a notoriously difficult Aintree course. (The Aintree Clear Rounds Award, given for any jockey completing more than five clear rounds, was not instituted until 1986.) Dick was born in Ashampstead, Berkshire, the son of Glasgow-born jocky and racehorse trainer David Purvis Dick (1896-1989) and his wife Alice Isabel Ivall. He died in Reading, aged 76.''England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005'' In 1969, Dick married Caroline Lockhart, with whom he had one son and one daughter, the Olympic bronze medalist, Daisy Dick Katherine Mary "Daisy" Dick (born 29 March 1972, in Oxford) is a British three-day eventing rider. With her horse Spring Along, she won the bronze ...
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David Dick (journalist)
David Barrow Dick (1930 – 2010), was an American journalist. He was an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News from 1966 to 1985. He became a professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky after retiring from CBS News. Early life and education David Dick was born on 18 Feb 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was raised in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he attended school, and later after graduation, he attended the University of Kentucky where he obtained his bachelor's and later master's degrees in English Literature. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War. Career at CBS From 1959 to 1966, Dick worked at WHAS Radio and WHAS TV in Louisville, where he served as a writer before advancing to an on-air journalist. From 1966 to 1985 he was a correspondent with CBS News anchored by Walter Cronkite. His assignment locations included Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas, Texas. He also worked as Bureau Chief for CBS' Latin America Bureau in Caracas. While ...
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Roger De Beauvoir
Roger de Beauvoir (8 November 1806, Paris – 27 August 1866) was the pen name of French Romantic novelist and playwright Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger. Life His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, ''Mon Procs'', written in 1849. Afflicted with gout Gout ( ) is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot and swollen joint, caused by deposition of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals. Pain typically comes on rapidly, reaching maximal intensit ... and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, he spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His best-known works included '' Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges'' (1840), ''Les Oeufs de Paques'' (1856) and ''L ...
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