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Art Wall Jr. 2001 Deaths

Art Wall Jr.Age: 77 golfer best remembered for remarkable comeback to win 1959 Masters; birdied five of his last six holes to close with a 66, passing Cary Middlecoff and defending champ…

Benjamin Davis, Jr. 2002 Deaths

Benjamin Davis, Jr.Age: 89 the first black U.S. Air Force general, who, during World War II, led the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering group of all-black fighter pilots. The success of the…

Raymond Davis, Jr. 2006 Deaths

Raymond Davis, Jr.Age: 91 chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for the detection of cosmic neutrinos—tiny particles that are created by nuclear reactions on the Sun. Died:…

Charles Black, Jr. 2001 Deaths

Charles Black, Jr.Age: 85 constitutional law expert and professor who helped to write the legal brief for 10-year-old Linda Brown, the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown…

Jack Haley, Jr. 2001 Deaths

Jack Haley, Jr.Age: 67 Emmy Award–winning director and producer who helmed the 1974 all-star documentary That's Entertainment. He was once married to Liza Minnelli. His father, Jack Haley,…

Morton Downey, Jr. 2001 Deaths

Morton Downey, Jr.Age: 67 contentious host of the short-lived but popular Morton Downey, Jr. Show, a 1980s talk show. Downey had a long and diverse career before he became an icon of the…

Howard E. Rollins, Jr. Biography

Howard E. Rollins, Jr. actorBorn: 11/17/1950Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland   Rollins gained critical acclaim for his role as a young Black man in search of justice in the film Ragtime (1981), a…

Cordero, Angel Tomás, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Cordero, Angel Tomás, Jr.Cordero, Angel Tomás, Jr.tōmäsˈ änhĕlˈ kôrdĕrˈō [key], 1942–, Puerto Rican jockey, b. Santurce. When he retired in 1992 he had won 7,057 races in 22 years.…

Sloan Foundation

(Encyclopedia) Sloan Foundation, fund established (1934) by automobile executive Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. as a philanthropic institution supporting research in various areas. In its early years it…

1998 NCAA Men's Basketball Assist Leaders

Assists ClGmNoAvgAhlon Lewis, Arizona St.Sr.322949.2Chico Fletcher, Arkansas St.So.292408.3Sean Colson, UNC-CharlotteSr.292318.0Ed Cota, N. CarolinaSo.372747.4Charles Jones, LIU-BrooklynSr.…