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William Powell
William Powell 1892-1984, American movie actor, b. Pittsburgh. Powell made his stage debut in 1912. He played the dapper villain in such early films as Sherlock Holmes (1921), Romola (1924), and Beau Geste (1926). In sound films, his sonorous voice and elegant manner made him more popular as ... Read more
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1st Baron
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1st Baron , 1857-1941, British soldier, founder of the Boy Scouts . He saw much active service in India and Africa prior to the South African War, in which he defended Mafikeng for seven months (1899-1900) and subsequently organized the ... Read more
William Powell Frith
William Powell Frith 1819-1909, English anecdotal and genre painter. His early paintings were illustrations, such as his Scene from a Sentimental Journey (Victoria and Albert Mus.). Later he painted many enormously popular pictures of everyday English life, among them Derby Day (National Gall.,... Read more
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell 1896-1965, American novelist, b. Mt. Gilead, Ohio. She came to New York City in 1918 and settled several years later in Greenwich Village, where she spent most of the rest of her life and became a member of a stellar literary set. These two locales are reflected in Powell's 15 novels: h... Read more
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire , 1899-1987, American dancer, actor, and singer, b. Omaha, Nebr., as Frederick Austerlitz. After 1911 he and his sister Adele formed a successful Broadway vaudeville team. After his sister retired, Astaire became a film actor (1933). He became known as a debonair song-and-dance man, par... Read more
John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell 1834-1902, American geologist and ethnologist, b. Mt. Morris (now part of New York City). The family moved to Illinois, where Powell joined the Natural History Society, making collections and serving as secretary of the society. After the Civil War, in which he lost an arm at Shi... Read more
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908-72, American politician and clergyman, b. New Haven, Conn. In 1937 he became pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, and he soon became known as a militant black leader. He was elected to the city council of New York in 1941, and was elected for the f... Read more
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. 1907-98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971-87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931. He had a successful law practice in Richmond and held several local offices. Powell al... Read more
Colin Luther Powell
Colin Luther Powell 1937-, U.S. army general and government official, b. New York City, grad., City College (B.S., 1958); George Washington Univ. (M.A., 1969). The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was the first African American and the youngest person to chair (1989-93) the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... Read more
Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell 1912-98, British politician. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a fellow there (1934-38) and professor of Greek at the Univ. of Sydney, Australia (1937-39). He entered Parliament in 1950 as a Conservative from Wolverhampton and served as minister of health (1960-63). With t... Read more

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Fred Astaire
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...with a variety of partners — tap virtuoso Eleanor Powell, Paulette Goddard, Rita Hayworth, Joan Leslie, and...Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron, Betty Hutton, Jane Powell, and Audrey Hepburn. This period was marked by a great...
White, Walter
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...His close friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –...Paris. Yet his friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and alliance with...six year marriage to Gladys Powell, an African American, ended...x2019; s resignation. Eleanor Roosevelt threatened to resign...
Juliette Gordon Low
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Scouts, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, she discovered a social cause...wealthy family. Her mother, Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon, hailed...contact with Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a hero of the Boer war who...became good friends and Baden-Powell introduced Low to his sister...
Human Rights
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...forty-three countries had pledged to Secretary of State Colin Powell prior to the vote that they would cast their ballots for the...Orwellian. That the land of Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and James Earl Carter, to name only four of the...

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Powell, Eleanor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers POWELL, Eleanor Nationality: American. Born: Springfield...Publications By POWELL: articles— "Eleanor Powell Talking to John Kobal," in Focus on...New York, 1985. Schultz, Margie, Eleanor Powell: A Bio-Bibliography, Westport...
Edens, Roger
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...worked behind the limelight that fell on Ethel Merman, Eleanor Powell, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and...impersonal style. In Born to Dance for example, Eleanor Powell dances to the Cole Porter tune "Swingin' the Jinx...
Ford, Glenn
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013;45; served in marine unit in Vietnam, 1967–68: colonel. Family: Married 1) the actress Eleanor Powell, 1943 (divorced 1959), son: the actor Peter Ford; 2) the actress Kathryn Hays, 1966 (divorced 1968); 3...
Miller, Ann
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...York), May 1994. * * * Ann Miller's reputation as Hollywood's virtuoso female tap dancer is challenged only by Eleanor Powell, whose career was ending as Miller's was beginning. It is a tribute to Miller's ability—and her...
Bloom, Claire
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Jocasta); The Ghost Writer (Tristam Powell—for TV) 1985 Déjà Vu (Richmond) (as Eleanor Harvey); Florence Nightingale (Duke...wife) 1996 Daylight (Cohen) (as Eleanor Trilling) 1997 Family Money (Rye...
Wald, Jerry
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...New York University, 1929–31. Family: Married Eleanor Rudolph, 1935 (divorced 1936). Career: 1929–...Solid Gold Cadillac (Quine); You Can't Run Away from It (Powell) Publications By WALD: book— Editor, with Richard...

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Jenny Lane recreates Eleanor Powell.(dance matters)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Want to learn Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell's "Begin the Beguine" number...Foremost in her focus is the work of Eleanor Powell (1912-1982), who in her 12...Powell's classic numbers. "Eleanor Powell was the only dancer besides Fred...
ELEANOR POWELL, 89; BEGAN CHILD CENTER AT BRIGHAM HOSPITAL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/13/2003; ; 549 words ; Eleanor Poirier Powell, who founded a child-care center at...suffering from a nursing shortage, so Mrs. Powell arranged grants and set up the center...on New Year's Day, 1914, Mrs. Powell graduated from Smith College in 1935...
Born to tap: Hollywood's Eleanor Powell made intricate look easy.(dm recommends)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...amazingly lithe and loose-limbed Eleanor Powell, who was in a series of musicals...tap divas are better known than Powell's these days, it's not because...Fred Astaire, while Keeler and Powell retired after only about a dozen...
ELEANOR POWELL.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/17/1997; 351 words ; NORFOLK -- Eleanor Powell, 92, formerly of the 5300 block of...Lafayette Villa Health Care. Mrs. Powell was born in Princess Anne County and...was a homemaker and the widow of Jim Powell. Survivors include a granddaughter...
Eleanor R. Powell
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 2/2/2001; 649 words ; Eleanor R. Powell Eleanor R. (Zak) Powell, 92, of Wheaton, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was a dental assistant. She was active in the Glen Ellyn Senior Citizens group. She is survived by...
Eleanor P. Powell, at 89, nurseryschool founder.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 2/14/2003; 577 words ; Eleanor Poirier Powell of Needham and Chestnut Hill, founder...amid a large nursing shortage, Mrs. Powell proposed a nursery day school for the...the W.R. Grace Co. In 1986, Mrs. Powell became the first recipient of the Robert...
ELEANOR A. POWELL, 87.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/24/1995; 507 words ; ALBANY Eleanor A. Powell, 87, of Barrows Street died Tuesday in St. Peter's Hospital. Mrs. Powell was a lifelong resident of Albany...1976 after 41 years of service. Mrs. Powell was a member of Emanuel Baptist Church...
National Headliners.(Ruth A. Davis; Eleanor Jordan; Adam C. Powell IV)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 10/2/2000; 525 words ; ...exciting foreign posts ... Kentucky state Rep. Eleanor Jordan passed the million-dollar mark in...had named his 11-year-old son, Adam C. Powell IV quipped, "What else? Adam Clayton Powell V." The father is a candidate for the New...
Obituary: Eleanor Norris Keaton
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/30/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...his widow was left to bring up Eleanor and her sister Jane on a small...age to the comedian. Ignoring Eleanor, the judge tried to marry her...1943), with Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell performing the scene, and at the...
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Newspaper article from: Library Bookwatch; 2/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...Secretaries Of State From John Jay To Colin Powell (0313308284) is a standard reference...secretaries of state from John Jay to Colin Powell are presented in a collection of essays...the Canyon materials. Fiona Swabey's Eleanor Of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, And The...