magazine editor, writerBorn: 2/18/1922Birthplace: Green Forest, Ark. Helen Gurley studied at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women's University) from 1939 to 1941, and at Woodbury Business…
Born: 1923 Indicator for detecting glucose—Her work in diagnostic chemistry led to the development of many tests used in urine testing, including CLINISTIX®, introduced in 1956. Early on at Miles…
May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens in Washington spews smoke, soot and ash into the sky in April, 1980. Its eruption that May devestated an area of about 150 square miles. Related Links…
(Encyclopedia) Keller, Helen Adams, 1880–1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of two, b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of…
(Encyclopedia) Wills, Helen Newington (Helen Wills Moody Roark), 1905–98, American tennis player, b. Centerville, Calif. She studied art at the Univ. of California and later gave exhibitions of her…
