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Glenn (Pop) Warner

Glenn (Pop) WarnerBorn: Apr. 5, 1871Football innovator coached at 7 colleges over 49 years; 319 career wins 2nd only to Bear Bryant's 323 in Div. I-A; produced 47 All-Americas, including Jim…

Noah Beery, Jr. Biography

Noah Beery, Jr. actorBorn: 8/10/1913Birthplace: New York City He appeared in the Howard Hawks-directed movies Sergeant York (1941) and Red River (1948). He also appeared in Walking Tall (1973) and…

C. Vann Woodward, Biography

C. Vann Woodward,Comer Vann Woodwardhistorian Born: 11/13/1908Birthplace: Vanndale, Arkansas Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and historian who chronicled the upheaval of the turbulent…

Lavern Baker 1997 Deaths

LaVern BakerR&B singer Baker, an influential blues musician of the 1950s, saw her career flag in the 1960s but made a triumphant return in the late 1980s. Her recordings, which mixed…

Airplane! <span class="date" >(1980)</span>

Director: Jim AbrahamsCast: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and David Zucker This hilarious spoof of those melodramatic '70s disaster flicks never relents with its sight gags, bad puns and sly…

Union Square

NBCThursday 8:30–9:00 p.m.; canceledCast: Constance Marie, Michael Landes, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jim Pirri, Jonathan Slavin, Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter and Christine Burke Hammocked between…

2000 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Being Dead, Jim Crace (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)General Nonfiction: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Ted Conover (Random House)Biography or Autobiography: Hirohito and the Making of…

Noah Beery, Jr.

Noah Beery, Jr. actorBorn: 8/10/1913Birthplace: New York City He appeared in the Howard Hawks-directed movies Sergeant York (1941) and Red River (1948). He also appeared in Walking Tall (…

Clarence (Big House) Gaines

Clarence (Big House) GainesBorn: May 21, 1924Basketball retired as coach of Div. II Winston-Salem after 1992-93 season with 828-447 record in 47 years; ranks 4th on all-time NCAA list behind…

US Gold Medal Hockey Teams: 1980

Forwards: Neal Broten, Steve Christoff, Mike Eruzione (captain), John Harrington, Mark Johnson, Rob McClanahan, Mark Pavelich, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Eric Strobel, Phil Verchota and Mark…