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Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon 1896-1985, American actress and playwright, b. Wollaston, Mass. From her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan (1915), Gordon's career encompassed broad stage and film experience. Among the plays she wrote are Over Twenty-One, Years Ago, and The Leading Lady. She and her husband, the playwri...
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poker
poker card game, believed to have originated in Asia and first played in the United States in the 19th cent. A traditional cutthroat gambling game at first, it is now also an internationally popular social pastime.
Basic Rules
Poker is fundamentally a gambling game and is played either fo...
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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid 1859-81, American outlaw, b. New York City. His real name was probably Henry McCarty; he was known as William H. Bonney. His family moved to Kansas and then to New Mexico when he was a child. He frequented saloons and gambling halls and killed several men during his teens. In 1878 he ...
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Tom Brady
Tom Brady (Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr.), 1977-, American football player, b. San Mateo, Calif. He attended the Univ. of Michigan (1995-99), where he was co-starting quarterback (1998-99) and led the team to win the 1999 Orange Bowl. Drafted by the New England Patriots in 2000, Brady replaced t...
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Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown (Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.), 1938-, American political leader, b. San Francisco. The son of Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown (1905-96), governor of California (1959-67), Brown abandoned early ideas of entering the priesthood and obtained a law degree (Yale, 1964). He entered California politics...
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Christian Coalition
Christian Coalition organization founded to advance the agenda of political and social conservatives, mostly comprised of evangelical Protestant Republicans, and to preserve what it deems traditional American values. It was established (1989) by Pat Robertson after he failed to win the 1988 Repub...
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Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin , 1912-99, American director and writer, b. Rochester, N.Y.; grad. American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 1933. He worked as a saxophonist, comedian, and actor before becoming (1935) an assistant to director George Abbott . During the following years he wrote or directed more than 30 plays...
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Rock 'n' Roll
ROCK 'N' ROLL
Restless Blood and Jungle Rhythms
At a time when America's most serious domestic problem in the minds of many people was the integration of schools, when federal integration laws were being defied across the nation, when angry parents were rioting in the streets to protest being forc...
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003, American actress, b. Hartford, Conn. She made periodic stage appearances from 1928 on and debuted in the first of her 43 films in 1932; in her early roles she was usually cast as rather brittle, one-dimensional characters. With the classic romantic comedy The Philadelp...
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poster
poster placard designed to be posted in some public place for purposes of commercial announcement or propaganda. Advertising makes wide use of posters, as do charitable and political organizations. In ancient civilizations a simple form of written public announcement was used. The invention of prin...
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