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Buffett, Warren Edward

(Encyclopedia) Buffett, Warren Edward Buffett, Warren Edward bŭfˈət [key], 1930–, American financial executive, b.…

1993 Tony Awards

PlayAngels in America: Millennium ApproachesMusicalKiss of the Spider Woman—The MusicalRevivalAnna ChristieActor—PlayRon Leibman, Angels in America: Millennium ApproachesActress—PlayMadeline…

1960 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Class   Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Ahmet Bilek, TUR   Masayuki Matsubara, JPN   Mohamed Saifpour Saidabadi, IRN Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Terrence McCann, USA   Nejdet…

Mamet's <i>Boy</i> Wonder

An Interview with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet by Peter Keough Related Links The Winslow Boy: Official SiteSony Pictures ClassicsThe only constants, it would seem, in the creative world of…

Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon

(Encyclopedia) Kunitz, Stanley JassponKunitz, Stanley Jassponky&oomacr;ˈnĭts [key], 1905–2006, American poet, teacher, and editor, b. Worcester, Mass. He graduated from Harvard (B.A., 1926; M.A…

Lewis, Sinclair

(Encyclopedia) Lewis, Sinclair, 1885–1951, American novelist, b. Sauk Centre, Minn., grad. Yale Univ., 1908. Probably the greatest satirist of his era, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating…

Indian Affairs, Bureau of

(Encyclopedia) Indian Affairs, Bureau of, created (1824) in the U.S. War Dept. and transferred (1849) to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The War Dept. managed Native American affairs after 1789, but…

Marshall, Thurgood

(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Thurgood, 1908–93, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), b. Baltimore. He received his law degree from Howard Univ. in 1933. In 1936 he…