He died in Mexico City Maand was placed in a sepulchre of the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres. In 1949 he received the Mexican national prize for Arts and Sciences. On Aphe became a founding member of Mexico's National College. In 1942 he received the Mexican national prize for literature. In 1917 he moved to Mexico City where for the rest of his life he continued his writing and worked as a doctor among the poor. There he wrote Los de abajo, a first-hand description of combat during the Mexican revolution, based on his experiences in the field.
He later was forced for a time to emigrate to El Paso, Texas. After Madero's death, he joined the military forces of Julián Medina, a follower of Pancho Villa, where he served as a field doctor. Madero as chief of political affairs in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco - his home town. During his days in the Mexican Revolution, Azuela wrote about the war and its impact on Mexico. Azuela was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco.
Azuela wrote many pieces including the newspaper piece ‘Impressions of a Student’ in 1896, the novel Andrés Pérez, maderista in 1911, and Los de abajo, (or The Underdogs), in 1915. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. Mariano Azuela González (Janu– March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been regularly nominated for the award since 1988 and has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world. Imprisoned in Syria in the mid-1950s as a result of his beliefs, Adunis settled abroad and has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books and volumes of poetry in the Arabic language as well as translated several works from French. He had just turned 93 years old.Īli Ahmad Said Esber (born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist, and translator. On October 6, 2012, he died in Boise, Idaho, after a brief illness. In 1979, John Rovick reprised his role as Sheriff John on KTTV, briefly hosting a Sunday morning version of the TV series, TV POIn 1981 Rovick retired from KTTV after 32 years. Sheriff John would read as many as a hundred names, and then bring out a cake and sing the Birthday Party Polka ("Put Another Candle on my Birthday Cake"). The highlight of the show was the birthday celebration. Sheriff John would give lessons about safety and good health habits. An artist, "Sketchbook Suzie", would draw pictures requested by viewers he would complete squiggles sent by the children and make a squiggle for them to complete.
Hush, Underdog, Crusader Rabbit and Porky Pig, and was often visited by farm animals. As Sheriff John, he began each program entering his office, singing "Laugh and be happy, and the world will laugh with you." He then said the Pledge of Allegiance and read a safety bulletin.
Rovick developed the program's concept himself. Following the war, he became a radio announcer, moving to television in its early days. He was played by John Rovick, (October 2, 1919, Dayton, Ohio – October 6, 2012, Boise, Idaho) who had served as a radio operator-gunner in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, surviving 50 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations. Enjoy!įROM WIKIPEDIA - Sheriff John was an American children's television host who appeared on KTTV in Los Angeles from July 18, 1952, to July 10, 1970, on two separate series, Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade and Sheriff John's Cartoon Time. I grew up watching Sheriff John on TV where he would sing "Put Another Candle on my Birthday Cake" every day to celebrate those kids lucky enough to have their birthday that day. Sheriff John sings "Put Another Candle on the Birthday Cake"