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Lawrence Gable 1998 Deaths

Lawrence GableAge: 48 a member of the Harlem Wizards, a Harlem Globetrotters-style exhibition basketball team that plays amateur teams at schools, camps and charity events; Gable entertained…

Lawrence Treat 1998 Deaths

Lawrence Treatmystery writer A founder of the Mystery Writers of America, Treat published hundreds of short stories and 17 novels over 70 years, including A as in Alibi and H as in Homicide.…

Lawrence Sanders 1998 Deaths

Lawrence Sandersauthor Best-selling author of crime and suspense novels including The First Deadly Sin and The Sixth Commandment, Sanders turned to fiction after 20 years in journalism.…

Andrea Mead Lawrence Biography

alpine skierBorn: April 19, 1932Died: March 30, 2009 (California, USA) Best Known as: Skiing gold medalist At the age of 15, Andrea Mead Lawrence placed…

Lawrence Summers, 2006 News

resigned as president of Harvard University in June, after a particularly tumultuous year. In 2005, he suggested that innate differences between men and women might explain why there are…

Lawrence Lader 2006 Deaths

Lawrence LaderAge: 86 writer who became a steadfast abortion-rights activist while writing a biography of Margaret Sanger. Labeled the father of the abortion-rights movement by Betty Friedan…

Lawrence Tierney 2002 Deaths

Lawrence TierneyAge: 82 actor who appeared in more than 70 films, often as a tough guy. He played the title role in 1945's Dillinger. He reemerged after several years away from the big screen…

Lawrence Summers, 2005 News

president of Harvard University, set off a storm of criticism in academia when he suggested at an economic conference in January that innate differences between men and women might explain…

Jerome Lawrence 2004 Deaths

Jerome LawrenceAge: 88 playwright who, with writing partner Robert E. Lee, wrote nearly 40 plays, including Inherit the Wind and Auntie Mame. Died: Malibu, Calif., Feb. 29, 2004Estée LauderG…

Brewer's: Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland

The hero of a popular tale. He served the schoolmaster, the squire's cook, the farmer, and his own wife, which was accounted high treason in Lubberland. One of Miss Edgeworth's tales, in…