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Blunt, Anthony Frederick

(Encyclopedia) Blunt, Anthony Frederick, 1907–83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at…

James (Jim) Guy TUCKER, Jr., Congress, AR (1943)

TUCKER, James (Jim) Guy, Jr., a Representative from Arkansas; born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Okla., June 13, 1943; educated in the public schools of Little Rock, Ark.; B.A., Harvard…

Guy Adrian VANDER JAGT, Congress, MI (1931-2007)

VANDER JAGT Guy Adrian , a Representative from Michigan; born in Cadillac, Wexford County, Mich., August 26, 1931; graduated from Cadillac High School, Cadillac, Mich.,1949; B.A., Hope College,…

Philip IV, king of France

(Encyclopedia) Philip IV (Philip the Fair), 1268–1314, king of France (1285–1314), son and successor of Philip III. The policies of his reign greatly strengthened the French monarchy and increased…

Gordon Ritz 2001 Deaths

Gordon RitzAge: 74 investor who helped found the Minnesota North Stars and served as team president from 1976-78. He died of cancer.Died: Wayzata, Minn., Aug. 10Michael RitchieR - ZJohn…

S. Dillon Ripley 2001 Deaths

S. Dillon RipleyAge: 87 ornithologist who served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984. During Ripley's tenure, eight new museums were built, the number of visitors…

Hanks, Tom

(Encyclopedia) Hanks, Tom, 1956–, American film actor, b. Concord, Calif., as Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. In 1980 he acted in his first film, and in 1980–82 he co-starred in a television sitcom. Hanks…

Ephron, Nora Louise

(Encyclopedia) Ephron, Nora Louise, 1941–2012, American writer and film director, grad. Wellesley College (B.A., 1962). Witty, tough, self-deprecating, and ironic in all her guises, she was a…