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Mott, Frank Luther

(Encyclopedia)Mott, Frank Luther, 1886โ€“1964, American author and professor of journalism, b. near What Cheer, Iowa. He directed (1927โ€“42) the school of journalism at the State Univ. of Iowa and was dean (1942โ€...

Munsey, Frank Andrew

(Encyclopedia)Munsey, Frank Andrew mลญnหˆsฤ“ [key], 1854โ€“1925, American publisher and author, b. Mercer, Maine. In 1882 he quit a telegraph operator's job in Maine to begin a career as publisher in New York City....

O'Connor, Frank

(Encyclopedia)O'Connor, Frank, 1903โ€“66, Irish short-story writer, whose name originally was Michael O'Donovan. He was a librarian in Dublin and later a director of the Abbey Theatre (1936โ€“39). O'Connor is noted...

O'Hara, Frank

(Encyclopedia)O'Hara, Frank 1926โ€“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 very much of it...

Netter, Frank Henry

(Encyclopedia)Netter, Frank Henry, 1906โ€“1991, American physician and medical illustrator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended City College as well as the National Academy of Design and Art Students League and became a ...

Lillie, Frank Rattray

(Encyclopedia)Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870โ€“1947, American zoologist and educator, b. Toronto, B.A. Univ. of Toronto, 1891, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1894. He taught, conducted research, and was an administrator at t...

Libby, Willard Frank

(Encyclopedia)Libby, Willard Frank, 1908โ€“80, American chemist, b. Grand Valley, Colo., grad. Univ. of California (B.S., 1931; Ph.D., 1933). He taught (1933โ€“45) at the Univ. of California and was a chemist (1941...

Low, Frank James

(Encyclopedia)Low, Frank James, 1933โ€“2009, American astronomer and physicist, b. Mobile, Ala., grad. Yale (B.S. 1955), Rice Univ. (M.A. 1957, Ph.D 1959). Low, who worked at Texas Instruments and the National Radi...

Lowden, Frank Orren

(Encyclopedia)Lowden, Frank Orren, 1861โ€“1943, American political leader, b. Chisago co., Minn. He practiced law in Chicago after 1887 and gained extensive agricultural holdings in Illinois. A leading member of th...

Kellogg, Frank Billings

(Encyclopedia)Kellogg, Frank Billings, 1856โ€“1937, American lawyer, U.S. senator (1917โ€“23), and cabinet member, b. Potsdam, N.Y. As a child, he moved to Olmstead co., Minn. He later studied law and held several ...