producerBorn: 10/27/1915Birthplace: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada Based in Britain, Saltzman produced the well-received social dramas Look Back in Anger (1959) and Saturday Night and Sunday…
food industry executiveBorn: 1855Birthplace: London, England Having emigrated to Ohio in 1882, he quickly established himself in the business of providing food to sports fans and conventioneers. In…
modeling agency founderBorn: 1911Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Originally working as a radio performer and model in the 1930s, he founded his own modeling agency in New York in 1939. He called his…
inventorBorn: 11/4/1884Birthplace: Dromore, County Down, Ireland He began working in his own business at age 16 in Belfast, and went on to build his own airplane, making the first flight in Ireland…
lawyer, founder of Rotary InternationalBorn: 1868Birthplace: Racine, Wis. Having grown up in Vermont and studied law in Iowa, he set up a practice in Chicago, where he founded an informal…
economistBorn: 8/24/1927Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Nobel Laureate economist who pioneered the idea of a “portfolio” that investors could use to minimize their risks. The theory was that if one were…
(Encyclopedia) Rowling, J. K. (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)Rowling, J. K.rōlˈibreve;ing [key], 1965–, English author known for her popular children's books. While unemployed she completed Harry Potter…
(Encyclopedia) hairdressing, arranging of the hair for decorative, ceremonial, or symbolic reasons. Primitive men plastered their hair with clay and tied trophies and badges into it to represent…
(Encyclopedia) lintel, in architecture, the horizontal member that spans an opening, such as a door or window, or that connects two columns. The post-and-lintel, or trabeated, system of construction…
