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Sally Field Biography

Sally Field(Sally Mahoney)actressBorn: 11/6/1946Birthplace: Pasadena, California Petite, energetic actress who graduated from lightweight television roles such as Gidget (1965) and The Flying…

Sally Kellerman Biography

Sally KellermanactressBorn: 6/2/1938Birthplace: Long Beach, California Sally Kellerman made her film debut in Reform School Girl (1959), soon developing a following through a series of…

Kingsport

(Encyclopedia) Kingsport, city (1990 pop. 36,365), Hawkins and Sullivan counties, NE Tenn., on the Holston River near the Va. line; inc. 1917. Industries include one of the largest printing and…

Hope, Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Hope, Anthony, pseud. of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933, English novelist. A lawyer, he wrote novels in his spare time. The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), a romantic novel of…

Heym, Georg

(Encyclopedia) Heym, GeorgHeym, Georggāˈôrkh hīm [key], 1887–1912, German poet and novelist of early expressionism. Rebelling against the new romanticism, Heym created the “demon” metropolis. This…

James, Etta

(Encyclopedia) James, Etta, 1938–2012, American singer, b. Los Angeles as Jamesetta Hawkins. She began singing in church and had her first hit record, “Roll with Me, Henry” (or “The Wallflower”), at…

Little Richard

(Encyclopedia) Little Richard, 1935–2020, American musician and singer, b. Macon, Ga., as Richard Wayne Penniman. One of the first rock musicians in the 1950s, he recorded such tunes as “Tutti Frutti…

David Hawkins 2002 Deaths

David HawkinsAge: 88 philosopher of science and historian who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant on the Manhattan Project and served as the project's official historian. At the University of…