(Encyclopedia) TupeloTupelot&oomacr;ˈpĭlō, ty&oomacr;– [key], city (1990 pop. 30,685), seat of Lee co., NE Miss.; founded 1859, inc. 1870. It is the trade, processing, and shipping center for…
(Encyclopedia) Powell, Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971–87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was…
(Encyclopedia) Group Theatre, organization formed in New York City in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg. Its founders, who had worked earlier with the Provincetown Players,…
(Encyclopedia) Jones, Casey, 1864–1900, American locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad and song, probably b. Jordan, Fulton co., Ky. His real name was John Luther Jones, but at the age of 17 he…
(Encyclopedia) Kirby, Jack, 1917–94, American comic-book artist famous for the strongly drawn, brilliantly colored, and surprisingly human superheroes and villains he created or co-created, b. New…
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former child actorDied: January 15, 2008 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: former child actor who played a witness to a mob lawyer's suicide in "The Client…
NUNNELEE, Alan, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Tupelo, Lee County, Miss., October 9, 1958; B.S., Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Miss., 1980; insurance company…
