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	Sitwell Sitwell English literary family, one of the most celebrated literary families of the 20th cent. Its members included Dame Edith Sitwell, 1887-1964, English poet and critic, Sir Osbert Sitwell, 1892-1969, English author, and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell , 1897-1988, English art critic. They were the... Read more
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	Joe Louis Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow) , 1914-81, American boxer, b. Lafayette, Ala. His father, a sharecropper, died when Louis was four years old, and in 1926 his stepfather took the family to Detroit, where Louis became interested in boxing. At 18 he began an amateur career in the ring. After winning... Read more
	James Hoban James Hoban , c.1762-1831, American architect, b. Ireland. By 1789, Hoban had immigrated to the United States. He designed the South Carolina statehouse, which was burned in 1865. In 1792 he moved to Washington, D.C., and won the competition for the design of a mansion for the President (later... Read more
	Robert Tyre Jones Jr Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. (Bobby Jones), 1902-71, American golfer, b. Atlanta, Ga. A lawyer, he became a golf devotee. Jones won the National Open (1923, 1926, 1929-30), the National Amateur (1924-25, 1927-28, 1930), and the British Open (1926-27, 1930). A perfectionist given to temper tantrums in his... Read more
	John Lawrence Sullivan John Lawrence Sullivan 1858-1918, American boxer, b. Roxbury, Mass. After gaining a local reputation in amateur boxing, the Boston Strong Boy, as Sullivan came to be called, toured New England cities and after 1878 boxed professionally. Sullivan, with a devastating right-handed punch, was... Read more
	John Brougham Brougham, John (1810–80), actor, playwright, and manager. Educated at Trinity College in his native Dublin, he spent much of his college career participating in amateur theatricals. He made his professional debut in London in 1830, worked under the celebrated Madame Vestris, and became... Read more
	Claude Adrien Helvetius Claude Adrien Helvétius , 1715-71, French philosopher, one of the Encyclopedists. He held the post of farmer-general (i.e., tax collector), an exceedingly remunerative position. In 1751 he retired to the country, devoting himself to writing and philanthropic enterprises. His book De l'esprit... Read more
	Jessie Bonstelle Bonstelle, Jessie [neé Laura Justine Bonesteele] (1872–1932), manager and actress. Born in the small town of Greece, New York, she was encouraged by her mother to give public readings and act in amateur productions. Bonstelle's professional debut was as the deserted wife in a touring... Read more
	William Thornton William Thornton 1759-1828, American architect, b. Tortola, British Virgin Islands, He studied (1781-84) medicine at Edinburgh but received his medical degree (1784) at the Univ. of Aberdeen. In 1787 he emigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1788. His plan for the Library Company in... Read more