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George A. Hormel Biography

George A. HormelmeatpackerBorn: 1860Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Hormel settled in Austin, Minnesota after working throughout the Midwest, opening the George A. Hormel and Company meat packing…

Raymond A. Kroc Biography

Raymond A. Kroc restaurateur Born: 10/5/1902 Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Having dabbled in everything from…

Michael A. Spence Biography

Michael A. Spence scholar, economistBorn: 1943Birthplace: Montclair, N.J. A bi-coastal economist specializing in the study of dynamic competition and the economics of information, he taught…

Charles A. Stone Biography

Charles A. Stone electrical engineerBorn: 1867Birthplace: Newton, Mass. Stone met his lifelong friend and partner, Edwin Webster, while they were studying electrical engineering at the…

Coleman A. Young Biography

Coleman A. YoungAge: 79 former union organizer who became first black mayor of Detroit. Died: Nov. 29, 1997.Jimmy Witherspoon1997 DeathsEarl Young

A. L. Rowse Biography

A. L. RowseAge: 93 Flamboyant British Shakespearean scholar who identified the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare's sonnets.Died: Oct. 3, 1997.Marvin Rothenberg1997 DeathsMike Royko

George A. Vicas Biography

George A. Vicasproducer, director Emmy award-winning producer of television documentaries and historical films on politics and culture, including The Pope and the Vatican and Germany: Fathers…

A. E. Housman: 1887

1887From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns And beacons burn again.Look left, look right, the hills are bright, The dales…

A. E. Housman: Introduction

Introduction The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit…