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Leahy, Frank William

(Encyclopedia) Leahy, Frank WilliamLeahy, Frank Williamlāˈhē [key], 1908–73, American football coach, b. O'Neill, Nebr. He was an assistant coach at Georgetown Univ. (1931–32), Michigan State College…

Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia) Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich, 1908–90, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1935. He was a professor at Moscow State Univ. from 1944 until his death in 1990. Mikhailovich and Igor Y…

Gehry, Frank Owen

(Encyclopedia) Gehry, Frank OwenGehry, Frank Owengĕrˈē [key], 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Ont., as Frank Owen Goldberg. He is widely considered one of the finest and most artful of…

Norris, Frank

(Encyclopedia) Norris, Frank (Benjamin Franklin Norris), 1870–1902, American novelist, b. Chicago. After studying in Paris, at the Univ. of California (1890–94), and at Harvard, he spent several…

Robinson, Frank

(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Frank, 1935–2019, American baseball player and manager, b. Beaumont, Tex. Entering major-league baseball as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, Robinson was named the…

Musial, Stanley Frank

(Encyclopedia) Musial, Stanley FrankMusial, Stanley Frankmy&oomacr;ˈzēəl [key], 1920–2013, American baseball player, b. Donora, Pa. At 17 he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National…

O'Hara, Frank

(Encyclopedia) O'Hara, Frank 1926–66, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1950), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A., 1951). His poetry is spontaneous, vernacular, witty, personal, and…

Hitchcock, Frank Harris

(Encyclopedia) Hitchcock, Frank Harris, 1867–1935, U.S. Postmaster General (1909–13), b. Amherst, Ohio. After service in the Dept. of Agriculture (1897–1903), the Dept. of Commerce and Labor (1903–5…