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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American essayist and editor, b. New York City. He was associate editor of the New Republic in its early days (1914-17), but at the outbreak of World War I he left to become Assistant Secretary of War, later helping to prepare data for the peace conference. From 1921 to... Read more |
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Moses Yale Beach
Moses Yale Beach 1800-1868, American journalist, b. Wallingford, Conn. As a young man he invented a rag-cutting machine and a gunpowder engine. In 1838 he bought the New York Sun from his brother-in-law, Benjamin Day, for whom he had been working as production manager. The Sun' s chief... Read more |
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Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown1969– Singer, actor Entertainer Bobby Brown shot to stardom in the early 1980s as one among five teen idols in the boy-band New Edition. Promoted as a modern-day Jackson 5, New Edition—which included Brown as well as Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivens, Ricky Bell, and Ronnie De-Voe—rocketed... Read more |
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Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many... Read more |
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904, Anglo-American journalist, explorer, and empire builder, b. Denbigh, Wales. He grew up in poverty and came to America as a worker on a ship, which he jumped (1858) in New Orleans. Originally named John Rowlands, there he took a new name, which he claimed,... Read more |
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Stephen Burrows
BURROWS, Stephen American designer Born: Newark, New Jersey, 15 September 1943. Education: Philadelphia Museum College of Art, 1961-62; fashion design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 1964-66. Career: Designer, Weber Originals, New York, 1966-67; supplier to Allen & Cole, circa... Read more |
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James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872)
James Gordon Bennett 1795-1872, American newspaper proprietor, b. Keith, Scotland. He came to America in 1819 and won a reputation as Washington correspondent of the New York Enquirer and later (1829-32) as assistant editor of the combined Courier and Enquirer. On May 6, 1835, he launched his... Read more |
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New Model Army
New Model Army Punk rock group For the Record … Selected discography Sources Firmly rooted in the punk era, New Model Army emerged on the Britis... Read more |
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Charles MacArthur
MacARTHUR, Charles Writer, Producer, and Director. Nationality:American. Born:Charles Gordon MacArthur in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 5 November 1895. Education:Attended Wilson Memorial Academy, Nyack, New York. Military Service:1916—served as a trooper in... Read more |
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James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918)
James Gordon Bennett 1841-1918, American newspaper proprietor, b. New York City; son of James Gordon Bennett . Educated mostly in France, he took over (1867) from his father the management of the New York Herald. In 1869-71 he financed Henry Stanley 's expedition into Africa to find David ... Read more |
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