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Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr., 1913โ2008, American physicist, b. Los Angeles, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1938. Lamb was a professor at Columbia (1938โ51), Stanford (1951โ56), Oxford (1956โ...McClellan, George Brinton, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)McClellan, George Brinton, Jr., 1865โ1940, American politician and educator, b. Dresden, Saxony, Germany; son of Gen. George B. McClellan. He studied law and joined (1889) Tammany Hall, becoming one...McEnroe, John Patrick, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)McEnroe, John Patrick, Jr. mฤkหษnrลห [key], 1959โ, American tennis player, b. Weisbaden, West Germany. He grew up in Douglaston, Queens, N.Y. After winning the National Collegiate Athletic Asso...Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902โ85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1937โ44, 1947โ53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist ...Lucas, George W., Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Lucas, George W., Jr., 1944โ, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Modesto, Calif. Although Lucas's first film, THX-1138 (1970), was not successful, his next two, American Graffiti (1973...Lucas, Robert Emerson, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Lucas, Robert Emerson, Jr., 1937โ2023, American economist, b. Yakima, Wash., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1964. Lucas taught at Carnegie Mellon Univ. (1963...Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr., 1868โ1953, American art critic and teacher, b. Deep River, Conn., grad. Williams, 1889, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1892. He taught (1893โ1900) at Williams and was professor (1...Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr., 1908โ2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a teacher, but soo...Martin, William McChesney, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Martin, William McChesney, Jr., 1906โ98, U.S. banker, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1951โ70), b. St. Louis. After an early career as a stockbroker, Martin becam...Browse by Subject
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