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Damon Wayans

actor, comedian, writer, producerBorn: 9/4/1960Birthplace: New York City As was the case with others before him, like John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray, Damon Wayans graduated from the…

Choice Boswell RANDELL, Congress, TX (1857-1945)

RANDELL, Choice Boswell, (nephew of Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell), a Representative from Texas; born near Spring Place, Murray County, Ga., January 1, 1857; attended public and private schools and…

Tim Moore

vaudeville and Broadway comedian Born: 12/9/1887Birthplace: Rock Island, Illinois Best remembered as George “Kingfish” Stevens on the classic series, Amos 'n' Andy (1951–53), Moore began his career…

Michael Landon

(Eugene Maurice Orowitz)actor, producer-director, writerBorn: 10/31/1936Birthplace: Forest Hills, New York Talented actor who starred for 14 years in Bonanza (1959–73) then went on to act in and…

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

(Encyclopedia) Basquiat, Jean-MichelBasquiat, Jean-Michelbäsˌkē-ätˈ [key], 1960–88, American painter, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Born into a middle-class Haitian and Puerto Rican family, he was a 1980s art…

Larry Jones HOPKINS, Congress, KY (1933)

HOPKINS, Larry Jones, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., October 25, 1933; attended the public schools of Wingo, Ky.; attended Murray State University, 1951-…

Carroll HUBBARD, Jr., Congress, KY (1937)

HUBBARD, Carroll, Jr., a Representative from Kentucky; born in Murray, Calloway County, Ky., July 7, 1937; attended public schools; graduated from Eastern High School, Middletown, Ky., 1955; B…

Haley, Alex

(Encyclopedia) Haley, Alex (Alexander Murray Palmer Haley), 1921–92, American writer, b. Ithaca, N.Y. Haley was for a time one of the most famous writers in the United States as the author of Roots:…

Smith, George Elwood

(Encyclopedia) Smith, George Elwood, 1930–, American physicist, b. White Plains, N.Y., Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1959. Smith was a researcher at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., from 1959 until…

Störmer, Horst Ludwig

(Encyclopedia) Störmer, Horst Ludwig, 1949–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Stuttgart, 1977. He joined the research staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., in 1978. Störmer and Daniel Tsui were co…