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David Spedding 2001 Deaths

David SpeddingAge: 58 spymaster, known as C, who headed Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1994 to 1999. He specialized in Middle East issues and in 1984 helped to prevent an…

David Brock, 2001 News

former conservative journalist, admitted in June that when he was covering the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991, he libeled Anita Hill in depicting her as “a little bit nutty…

David Trimble, 2001 News

Ulster Unionist leader, resigned his post as first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly in July after the Irish Republican Army once again stalled on disarmament. The move threatened to…

Robert Graves: Goliath And David

Goliath And David(For D.C.T., Killed at Fricourt, March, 1916) Yet once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: Out between the lines he went To that one-sided tournament, A…

David Crosthwait, Jr. Biography

David Crosthwait, Jr.engineer, inventorBorn: 1898Birthplace: Nashville, Tenn. David Crosthwait held numerous patents relating to heat transfer, ventilation, and air conditioning, the areas…

David Merrick 2000 Deaths

David MerrickAge: 88 Broadway impresario famous for his productions and his ruthless pursuit of publicity. Known as the “Abominable Showman,” Merrick remains one of the most prolific and…

David Irving, 2000 News

historian and author, was called an anti-Semite racist and a Hitler apologist in April by British High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case in which Irving sued…

David Guralnik 2000 Deaths

David GuralnikAge: 79 lexicographer who served as editor in chief of Webster's New World dictionaries from 1948 to his retirement in 1985. He died of colon cancer. Died: Shaker Heights, Ohio…

David Tomlinson 2000 Deaths

David TomlinsonAge: 83 British actor best known for playing the father in Mary Poppins. Other credits include The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Died: Buckinghamshire, England, June…

David Hall McConnell Biography

David Hall McConnelltoiletries pioneerBorn: 1858Birthplace: Oswego, N.Y. Having developed a perfume he sought to market, McConnell founded the California Perfume Company, which would later…