Cheryl Tiegs was perhaps the most famous American model of the 1970s. A blue-eyed honey blonde with sporty good looks, Tiegs debuted on the cover of Glamour at age 17, and later appeared on the…
One of the few female punk rockers to reach mainstream success, Chrissie Hynde is the longtime leader of the group The Pretenders. Hynde is a child of the '60s revolution: she was attending Kent…
(Encyclopedia) Babbage, CharlesBabbage, Charlesbăbˈĭj [key], 1792–1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and a government…
(Encyclopedia) Rudolph, Paul Marvin, 1918–97, American modernist architect, b. Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at several universities and served as chair of the Yale architecture department from 1958–65…
Senate Years of Service: 1971-1989Party: DemocratCHILES, Lawton Mainor, Jr., (uncle of Kay Hagan), a Senator from Florida; born in Lakeland, Polk County, Fla., April 3, 1930; attended the…
Writer, director, producer and comic actor Charles Grodin was known to most film audiences as the annoying accountant in 1988’s Midnight Run and the angry dad in the kids’ movie Beethoven (1992).…
Name at birth: Hans GudegastGerman-born actor Eric Braeden has played urbane tycoon Victor Newman on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless since 1980. As Hans Gudegast, he began his career in…
Andrew Newell Wyeth's 1948 painting Christina's World is one of the most recognized American paintings of the 20th century. Wyeth, the youngest son of noted illustrator N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), grew…
Known for poetry of political and social consciousness, Denise Levertov published her first book of poems, The Double Image, in England in 1946. Though still young, she had worked as a nurse in…
(Encyclopedia) Howe, Geoffrey (Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon), 1926–2015, British political leader, b. Port Talbot, Wales. After service in the British army, he studied law at…
