First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Jamie Rubin, 16, Canterbury School, Fort Myers, Fla., for his project identifying small molecules that can be used in treatment for Candida albicans yeast…
railroad officialBorn: 1837Birthplace: Brownington, Vt. Having graduated from Bell's Business College in Chicago (1855), he began his career in railroads as a station agent of the Milwaukee &…
gossip columnist, entrepreneurBorn: 10/8/1936Birthplace: New York, N.Y. In 1957 Barrett became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure-NANA newspaper syndicate. In 1966 she began broadcasting over…
(William George Zane, Jr.)actorBorn: 2/24/1966Birthplace: Chicago Zane made his film debut in Back to the Future (1985) and also appeared in Part II (1989) as well as in films such as Critters (…
novelistBorn: 7/21/1899Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer considered spokesman of the “lost generation.” His works, which include The Sun Also Rises…
(Belle Silverman)operatic sopranoBorn: 5/25/1929Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Animated coloratura widely regarded as America's greatest soprano. She has appeared as the heroine in more than 50…
(Luigina Lollobrigida, as fashion model used the name Diane Loris)model, actress Born: 7/4/1927Birthplace: Subiaco, Italy A former art student and magazine model, “La Lollo” personified the movie…
