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Robert Daniel Kennedy (August 18, 1920 - April 7, 2005) was a right fielder/third baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball. From 1939-1957, Kennedy played for the Chicago White Sox (1939-42, 1946-48, 1955-56, 1957), Cleveland Indians (1948-54), Baltimore Orioles (1954-55), Detroit Tigers (1956) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1957). He batted and threw right-handed. After his playing career, Kennedy managed the Chicago Cubs (1963-65) and Oakland Athletics (1968). His son, former major league catcher Terry Kennedy, ...

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David Herbert Donald (born 1920) is the Charles Warren Professor of American History (emeritus in 1991) at Harvard University and the author of well over thirty books, including the definitive biography of American Civil War-era Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner (Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War). He specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, with int ...

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Annie Glenn (born Anna Margaret Castor on February 17, 1920) is the wife of former astronaut and Senator John Glenn. Annie Glenn - Private Life. Annie was born in 1920 to Homer and Margaret Castor of Columbus, Ohio. In 1923, Dr. Castor and his family moved to New Concord, Ohio, where they became friends with the family of John Hershel Glenn, Sr. Annie and John Glenn, Jr., were childhood playmates, then high school sweethearts, and after John received his commission in the Marine Corps, they were marr ...

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• Annie Glenn - Private Life
• Annie Glenn - Education
• Annie Glenn - Family
• Annie Glenn - Hobbies & Interests
• Annie Glenn - Public Service
• Annie Glenn - Speech Impediment
• Annie Glenn - Community Service
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Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) and Studien Zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) among others. Together with Kenneth Kitchen, he is viewed as one of the foremost scholars on ...

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Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF as a bomber pilot. After the war he became a freelance journalist, working for BBC radio before moving to television in 1948. While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is almost entirely remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final, specifically the words he used as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead: 'Some people are on the pitch . ...

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Kenneth Wolstenholme, Kenneth Wolstenholme - Career, Kenneth Wolstenholme - Legacy, Kenneth Wolstenholme - Quotations

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Professor Klein is a graduate of Los Angeles City College, where he learned calculus; the University of California, Berkeley, where he began his computer modeling; he earned his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1944. Klein then moved to the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, which was then at the University of Chicago, now the Cowles Foundation. There he built a model of the United States economy to forecast the development of business fluctuations and to study the effects of government economic-poli ...

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Lawrence Klein, Lawrence Klein - Development of business Forecasting model, Lawrence Klein - McCarthyism and move to England, Lawrence Klein - Return to America at Wharton, Lawrence Klein - Later Career, Lawrence Klein - Publications, Lawrence Klein - External link

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Cosgrave led a National Coalition of Fine Gael and Labour to victory in the 1973 General Election. It was the first non-Fianna Fáil government since the Second Inter-Party Government was elected in 1954. Cosgrave was determined not to alienate certain wings of his party in choosing his cabinet. The cabinet was described as being the "government of all talents", including such luminaries as future taoiseach and writer Garret FitzGerald, former United Nations diplomat, Conor ...

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Liam Cosgrave, Liam Cosgrave - Early Life, Liam Cosgrave - Minister at last, Liam Cosgrave - Opposition, Liam Cosgrave - Fine Gael Leader, Liam Cosgrave - Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave - Overview, Liam Cosgrave - Cabinet, Liam Cosgrave - Political Career

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Andes started his Broadway career while serving in the Air Force during World War II. In 1947, he received the Theater World Award for his role in for his outstanding breakout role in "The Chocolate Soldier" and later he starred in "Kiss Me Kate." His first screen role was a minor part in the film Winged Victory (1944). In 1952, he appeared with Marilyn Monroe in Clash by Night. On television, he played an amateur sleuth on the 1963 sitcom "Glynis" that starred Glynis Johns who played his wife. He also appeared in the police ...

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Keith Andes, Keith Andes - Career, Keith Andes - External link

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Annie was born in 1920 to Homer and Margaret Castor of Columbus, Ohio. In 1923, Dr. Castor and his family moved to New Concord, Ohio, where they became friends with the family of John Hershel Glenn, Sr. Annie and John Glenn, Jr., were childhood playmates, then high school sweethearts, and after John received his commission in the Marine Corps, they were married on April 6, 1943. Annie Glenn - Education. Like John Glenn, Annie attended New Concord public schools and continued her education at Muskingum College. An accomplished organist, she received a BS d ...

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Annie Glenn, Annie Glenn - Private Life, Annie Glenn - Education, Annie Glenn - Family, Annie Glenn - Hobbies & Interests, Annie Glenn - Public Service, Annie Glenn - Speech Impediment, Annie Glenn - Community Service, Annie Glenn - Memberships

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James E. Faust was born to George A. Faust and Amy Finlinson Faust in Delta, Utah on July 31, 1920. In Granite High School, he won awards for track and a letter for football. He attended University of Utah, where he ran the 440 and mile relay. His college education was interrupted once for service to his church - he served a mission to Brazil from 1939 to 1942, and once again for his nation - during World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air For ...

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James E. Faust, James E. Faust - Early Life, James E. Faust - Public Service, James E. Faust - Church Service, James E. Faust - Family, James E. Faust - Published Works, James E. Faust - External Resources

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John Maynard Smith - Early years. John Maynard Smith was born in London, the son of a surgeon but following his father's death in 1928 the family moved to Exmoor, where he became interested in natural history. He went to Eton College but was purportedly unhappy there, but developed an interest in Darwinism and mathematics, having read the work of old Etonian J.B.S. Haldane, whose books were in the school's library despite the bad r ...

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John Maynard Smith, John Maynard Smith - Biography, John Maynard Smith - Early years, John Maynard Smith - A second degree, John Maynard Smith - At the University of Sussex, John Maynard Smith - Evolution and the Theory of Games, John Maynard Smith - The evolution of sex and other major transitions in evolution, John Maynard Smith - Animal Signals, John Maynard Smith - Bibliography, John Maynard Smith - Books, John Maynard Smith - Footnotes

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Maxi Herber - Olympic Winter Games. 1936 – 1st place Maxi Herber - World championships. 1934 – 3rd place 1935 – not participated 1936 - 1st place 1937 - 1st place 1938 - 1st place 1939 - 1st place Maxi Herber - European championships. 1935 - 1st place 1936 - 1st place 193 ...

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Maxi Herber, Maxi Herber - Results in pair skating with Ernst Baier, Maxi Herber - Olympic Winter Games, Maxi Herber - World championships, Maxi Herber - European championships, Maxi Herber - German championships Nationals, Maxi Herber - Results as a single skater, Maxi Herber - Olympic Winter Games, Maxi Herber - World championships, Maxi Herber - European championships, Maxi Herber - German championships Nationals, Maxi Herber - Navigation

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In 1978, Seychelles exiles in South Africa, acting on behalf of ex-president James Mancham, began discussions with officials concerning a coup attempt to be launched in Seychelles. The operation was entrusted to Hoare who was living in South Africa as a civilian. Among the 53 people selected to carry out the coup: some members of the South African special forces (Recces), several former Rhodesian soldiers and ex-Congo mercenaries. Hoare and 43 mercenaries were disguised as tourists: rugby players and members of a beer-drinking ...

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Mike Hoare, Mike Hoare - Early life and miliary career, Mike Hoare - Congo crisis, Mike Hoare - Discipline, Mike Hoare - Nigerian Civil War, Mike Hoare - The Seychelles affair, Mike Hoare - Works by Mike Hoare

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She had three marriages and many affairs, including those with Edward Roscoe Murrow (1904 – 1965); John Hay "Jock" Whitney (1904 – 1982), philanthropist and diplomat, last owner of the New York Herald Tribune; Prince Aly Khan (1911 – 1960), son of Aga Khan III and Therese Magliano; Gianni Agnelli (1921 – 2003), son of Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia dei Marchesi Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria; and Baron Elie de Rothschild (born 1917), so ...

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Pamela Harriman, Pamela Harriman - Early life, Pamela Harriman - Romantic Involvements, Pamela Harriman - Political Life, Pamela Harriman - External link

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Having previously failed to win in Solihull in 1945, he entered the British House of Commons in 1948 as representative for Southwark; owing to constituency boundary changes this seat was due to be abolished, however. In 1950 he became MP for Birmingham Stechford and represented the constituency until 1977. Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the Obscene Publications Act, which was responsible for establishing the liable to "deprave and corrupt" criteria as a basis for a prosecution of su ...

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Roy Jenkins, Roy Jenkins - Early life, Roy Jenkins - MP and Minister, Roy Jenkins - President of the European Commission, Roy Jenkins - The Social Democratic Party SDP, Roy Jenkins - In the House of Lords, Roy Jenkins - Selected bibliography

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At 19, Touko moved from his native Kaarina to Helsinki to attend art school. It was here where he first began to sketch his first homoerotic drawings, based on images of masculine Finnish laborers he had saved from an early age. Finland, however, soon became embroiled in the Winter War with the USSR, and then formally involved in World War II, and Touko was inducted into the Finnish Army. After the war, Touko returned to civilian life and worked in the advertising industry, continuing to draw on the side. In 1957, he submitted some of his ho ...

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Tom of Finland, Tom of Finland - Life and Career, Tom of Finland - Controversy and artistic appreciation, Tom of Finland - Cultural impact and legacy

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Born into a musical family, his mother was Johanna Geisler, a soprano, and his father the famous conductor Otto Klemperer. A "Halbjude" (1/2-Jew), his family fled the Nazi regime in 1933, making their way to Los Angeles, California in the United States. Klemperer began acting in high school, and, although an accomplished concert pianist, he enrolled in acting school in Pasadena before joining the U.S. Army to fight in World War II. While stationed in Hawaii, he joined the army's Special Services unit, spending the next few years touri ...

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Werner Klemperer, Werner Klemperer - Beginnings, Werner Klemperer - Television, Werner Klemperer - Later Career, Werner Klemperer - Trivia

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Estep was professor of Church history emeritus at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1954 until his retirement in 1990, however he continued to teach until 1994. During that time, he wrote numerous works on subjects including Baptist and Anabaptist history, religious liberty and world missions. He also was involved in several church organisations including the American Society of Church History; the Conference on Faith and History (in the capacity of president); Southern Baptist Historical Society; the Texas Baptist Historical So ...

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William Roscoe Estep, William Roscoe Estep - Career and life, William Roscoe Estep - List of books published, William Roscoe Estep - External link

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In 1945, Shapero married the painter Esther Geller. Throughout the rest of the decade they were often residents at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, an artists' retreat established by the widow of Edward MacDowell. There Shapero composed his Symphony for Classical Orchestra. In 1947, Stravinsky and Shapero met again, and Shapero showed Stravinsky the score of the Symphony for Classical Orchestra. After looking at the score of the Symphony, Stravinsky advised Shapero to become a conductor. Leonard Bernstein conducted the world premiere ...

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Harold Shapero, Harold Shapero - Early years, Harold Shapero - Postwar years, Harold Shapero - Analysis, Harold Shapero - Recordings, Harold Shapero - Awards

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The roster of those whose music Manne enhanced with his subtle, sensitive, and creative percussion is mind boggling. Many old 78-rpm recordings he appeared on were never transferred to other media and are nearly impossible to find. He also appears to have participated in countless unrecorded performances. But even those recordings that were issued as long-playing records over the course of many decades and are still to be found number in the hundreds, perhaps thousands. According to the jazz writer Leonard Feather, Manne's drumming had been ...

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Shelly Manne, Shelly Manne - Family and origins, Shelly Manne - West Coast, Shelly Manne - West Coast jazz, Shelly Manne - Collaborations, Shelly Manne - Singers, Shelly Manne - Film and television, Shelly Manne - Selected discography, Shelly Manne - Shelly Manne's own groups, Shelly Manne - With others

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