actress, producer, writerBorn: 4/24/1936Birthplace: London, England Jill Ireland began her career as a dancer, making her screen debut in the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film Oh, Rosalinda…
Donald Tai Loy HoHawaiian entertainer Born: 8/13/1930Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii Don Ho, Hawaii's most famous entertainer, claims Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, German, and Dutch ancestry. He…
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(Encyclopedia) Mnuchin, Steven TernerMnuchin, Steven Ternermən&oomacr;chən [key], 1962–, U.S. business leader, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1985. An investment banker, he joined Goldman Sachs in…
(Encyclopedia) McClatchy, J. D. (Joseph Donald McClatchy, Jr.), 1945–2018, American poet, b. Bryn Mawr, Pa., B.A. Georgetown Univ., 1967, Ph.D. Yale, 1974. His first collection of poems, Scenes from…
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(Encyclopedia) Flavin, DanFlavin, Danflāˈvĭn [key], 1933–96, American sculptor, b. New York City. In the early 1960s, Flavin experimented with fluorescent lights, bending them into complex, angular…
(Encyclopedia) Powell, Jerome Hayden, 1953–, U.S. investment banker and government official, b. Washington, D.C., A.B. Princeton, 1975, J.D. Georgetown Univ., 1979. He worked with New York law firms…
