Only show
results for:

Topics related to "TV star helps honor William Allen White award winners"

Paris Barclay Paris Barclay
Paris Barclay 1957– Television director Succeeded in Mainly-White Academia Became Two Time Emmy Winner Resolved to Effect Change With Career Sources Paris Barclay Read more
Robert Guillaume Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume 1927family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">— Actor, singer, producer Before Robert Guillaume became a popular television actor and Broadway musical star, he was Robert Williams from St. Louis, Missouri: a young man with a golden voice and a future in the accounting field. Fortunately... Read more
Mia Hamm Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm 1972- Soccer player An Early Star Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm was born in Selma, Alabama, on 17 March 1972, one of six siblings. Although most people had not heard of her until the end of the 1990s, when Women's World Cup Soccer finally received media attention in the United States, she... Read more
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode. This technology helped advance research... Read more
Presidential Medal of Freedom Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom, initially (1945–63) to honor government service, since 1963 has been given upon occasion to acknowledge contributions in the arts. Winners include Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson (1963); J. Frank Dobie, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Eliot Morison, Lewis ... Read more
L.L. Cool J L.L. Cool J
L.L. Cool J Rap musician In the turbulent climate of rap music, careers are often brief moments of success crested atop long stretches of obscurity. For L.L. Cool J, this is not so, as he has both helped lay down the groundwork for rap during the genre's early days as well as... Read more
Tim Duncan Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan 1976- American basketball player Combining skills as a passer, rebounder, shooter, scorer, dribbler, and defender, Tim Duncan is one of the best all-round players in the NBA. Winner of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Most Valuable Player honors in 2002, Duncan is no stranger... Read more
Luis Miguel Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources An adolescent singing sensation and teenage Grammy Award-winner, Luis Miguel went on to record a series of successful albums that made him the preeminent Spanish-language singer of the millennium. His traditional bolero albums... Read more
Henrik Pontoppidan Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan Novelist Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) is considered Denmark's foremost prose author. The Nobel Prize winner earned recognition for his exceptionally accurate portrayals of his native Denmark—contributing three epic novel cycles and a set of memoirs that helped... Read more
Peter OToole Peter OToole
Peter O'Toole 1932-, British actor, b. Connemara, Ireland. A classical stage actor, he appeared (1955-58) with the Bristol Old Vic, debuted in London in 1956, and has played a variety of Shakespearean roles. Tall and handsome, he made his screen debut in The Savage Innocents (1959) and catapulted... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Networks fill May with specials, finales: Big guns wheeled out for final...
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail ...21 Hottest Stars Under 21...periods used to help local TV stations...have the honor of featuring...Academy Award-winners all, Jon...Parker co-star. CBS movie...account of his TV ...
NAMES & FACES HIE THEE TO HARVARD
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...Tuesday. Tri-Star Pictures...the Sgt. William H. Carney...Shaw was the white abolitionist...Medal of Honor. The performance...being held to help mark Black...HOLLYWOOD Woody Allen and Rob Reiner...of America ...

See all related articles