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Straus, Oscar

(Encyclopedia) Straus, OscarStraus, Oscarôsˈkär shtrous [key], 1870–1954, Austrian composer; studied in Vienna and with Max Bruch in Berlin. After a brief career as conductor he turned entirely to…

Ariel Dorfman

writerBorn: 5/6/1942Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Chilean writer and left-wing intellectual who established himself as a novelist, poet, playwright and critic. His family moved to New York…

Castle, Vernon, and Irene Foote

(Encyclopedia) Castle, Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe) 1887–1918, and Irene Foote, 1893–1969, husband-and-wife dance team. Vernon Castle was an English dancer, who studied civil engineering before…