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Brewer's: Gauvaine

or Gawain = Gau-wain (2 syl., g hard). Sir Gauvaine the Courteous. One of Arthur's kinghts, and his nephew. He challenged the Green Knight, and struck off his head; but the headless knight…

Maggie Winters

CBSWednesday 8:30–9:00 p.m.; on hiatusCast:Faith Ford, Jenny Robertson, Alex Kapp, Vincent Ventresca, Brian Haley and Shirley Knight After a failed marriage and several bad career moves,…

Gene Klein

Gene KleinBorn: Jan. 29, 1921Horseman won 3 Eclipse awards as top owner (1985-87); his filly Winning Colors won 1988 Kentucky Derby; also owned San Diego Chargers football team (1966-84).Died…

Bill Koch

Bill KochBorn: June 7, 1955Cross country skiing first highly accomplished American male in his sport; first American male to win a cross country Olympic medal when he took home a silver in…

Vladimir Kondrashin Biography

Vladimir KondrashinAge: 70 coach of the Soviet Union men's basketball team that won a disputed gold medal victory over the United States team in 1972; coached the U.S.S.R. to a world…

Masaji Kiyokawa Biography

Masaji KiyokawaAge: 86 Olympic swimmer from Japan who won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke at the 1932 games in Los Angeles; served as vice president of the International Olympic Committee…

Hildegard Knef 2002 Deaths

Hildegard KnefAge: 76 German actress and smoky-voiced singer who earned fame in the U.S. for her performance as a Soviet commissar in Cole Porter's Silk Stockings. She starred opposite…

Edward Knipling 2000 Deaths

Edward KniplingAge: 90 U.S. government entomologist who devised a technique to sterilize male screwworms, essentially eradicating the insect and saving livestock from a fatal plague. Knipling…

Kenneth Koch 2002 Deaths

Kenneth KochAge: 77 poet, novelist, and playwright who, with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, created the New York school of poets in the 1950s. He wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry, and his…