actorBorn: 12/9/1953Birthplace: Christopher, Illinois Disturbing and often spooky film, television and stage actor, Malkovich began his career on the stage and still claims a greater fidelity to…
(John Youngs)actorBorn: 8/25/1950Birthplace: Old Bethpage, New York An intense leading man, Savage is known especially for his roles in late-1970s films. He played one of the three friends serving…
columnist, authorBorn: 6/18/1913Birthplace: Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y. In 1931 Sylvia Field Feldman married a banker, Reed Porter. The following year she graduated from Hunter College. Porter…
poet and translatorBorn: 3/1/1941Birthplace: San Francisco Hass was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1995 and used the post to promote poetry and literacy. During his term (1995–1997…
screenwriterBorn: 10/14/1909Birthplace: New York City While bedridden with measles as a young divorced mother of three, Dorothy Kingsley proclaimed that she could write better material than she was…
(Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell)actressBorn: 6/21/1921Birthplace: Bemidji, Minnesota Beautiful, dark-haired, big-boned actress with a direct personality, she is known as much for her lingerie…
chemistBorn: 1912Birthplace: San Antonio, Tex. In addition to being a student leader at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned a B.A. in 1936 and an M.S. in 1937,…
Politics and Pipelines Political problems, huge investments confront major oil discovery by David Johnson Oil drilling stations like the one above will transport newly discovered…
WHY WAS THE MIDDLE EAST SUCH A RICH PRIZE? BABYLONIANSHITTITESHEBREWSASSYRIANSFIND OUT MOREFrom around 2000 BC, rival peoples in the Middle East fought to either conquer or defend land. Some,…
(Sissela Myrdal)writer, philosopher, educatorBorn: 12/2/1934Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden Bok's belief in the power of individuals to improve their own circumstances can be traced to her parents,…
