Henry Repeating Arms

Henry Repeating Arms is a firearms manufacturing company, one of the top five long gun manufacturers in the United States and the leading lever action manufacturer.

History

Henry Repeating Arms adopted its name from Benjamin Tyler Henry, the inventor who patented the first lever action, repeating rifle in 1860. The Henry Repeating Arms Company has no actual association with either the New Haven Arms Company, which manufactured the original Henry rifles and was later renamed the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1866, or to Benjamin Tyler Henry, its inventor. However, some critics contend that HRA's advertising and marketing is misleading and encourages many potential buyers into believing that some historical connection to B.T. Henry's original rifle exists where it clearly does not. The company does own the rights to its own, similar name, its trademark and copyrights to the name Henry.

The company resurrected the Henry name in 1996 and started manufacturing the H001, a .22 caliber, lever action rifle in Brooklyn, New York. This first rifle was essentially an American made copy of a rifle previously made in Germany by Erma, imported into the US by Ithaca and called the model 72 saddle gun. In September 2008 the company moved its headquarters to a 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) facility in Bayonne, New Jersey and presently employs 250 people. The company also owns a 140,000 square feet (13,000 m²) facility in Rice Lake, Wisconsin which employs 175 people. It is where they cast and machine the receivers for the Henry rifles as well as supplying other gun parts.

Golden Boy

Golden Boy or The Golden Boy may refer to:

Artwork

Film, theatre, and television

Music

Golden Boy (Manitoba)

The Golden Boy (official name Eternal Youth) is a statue perched facing North on the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and it is arguably Manitoba's best known symbol. it stands 5.25 metres (17.2 feet) tall from the toe to the top of the torch and 4.27 metres (14 feet) from head to toe. It weighs 1650 kg (3,640 lb), and the top of his torch is 77 metres (250 feet) above ground.

History

The statue was purchased by Manitoba Government from France. It was sculpted by Georges Gardet of Paris in 1918, and cast in bronze by the Barbidienne Foundry. It was placed in a ship's hold for transport to Canada. However, the ship was commandeered for service in World War I, so the statue remained in the ship's hold for the remainder of the war travelling back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. The statue finally landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was shipped by train to Winnipeg where it was placed atop the Legislative Building on November 21, 1919.

Golden Boy (musical)

Golden Boy is a 1964 musical with a book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.

Based on the 1937 play of the same name by Odets, it focuses on Joe Wellington, a young man from Harlem who, despite his family's objections, turns to prizefighting as a means of escaping his ghetto roots and finding fame and fortune. He crosses paths with Mephistopheles-like promoter Eddie Satin and eventually betrays his manager Tom Moody when he becomes romantically involved with Moody's girlfriend Lorna Moon.

Background

Producer Hillard Elkins planned the project specifically for Sammy Davis, Jr. and lured Odets out of semi-retirement to write the book. The original play centered on Italian American Joe Bonaparte, the son of poverty-stricken immigrants with a disapproving brother who works as a labor organizer. Elkins envisioned an updated version that would reflect the struggles of an ambitious young African American at the onset of the Civil Rights era and include socially relevant references to the changing times.