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Rosset, Barney Lee, Jr.

(Encyclopedia)Rosset, Barney Lee, Jr., 1922–2012, American publisher, b. Chicago. As head (1951–85) of Grove Press, he published literary works previously deemed too obscene or unconventional for the reading pu...

Harte, Bret

(Encyclopedia)Harte, Bret (Francis Brett Harte) härt [key], 1836–1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his hand at teaching, clerk...

Scofield, Paul

(Encyclopedia)Scofield, Paul, 1922–2008, English actor, b. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Scofield joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1945, and had his first major success in King John. At the Stratford Memorial...

Chartism

(Encyclopedia)Chartism, workingmen's political reform movement in Great Britain, 1838–48. It derived its name from the People's Charter, a document published in May, 1838, that called for voting by ballot, univer...

Folline, Miriam

(Encyclopedia)Folline, Miriam: see Leslie, Frank. ...

Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich

(Encyclopedia)Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich, 1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in 1971. Tamm an...

Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, N Germany, 13 mi (21 km) NW of Celle. Building materials are manufactured. A North Atlantic Treaty Organization base is outs...

Norris, Charles Gilman

(Encyclopedia)Norris, Charles Gilman: see Norris, Frank. ...

Oxford Group

(Encyclopedia)Oxford Group: see Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel. ...

Moral Re-Armament

(Encyclopedia)Moral Re-Armament: see Buchman, Frank N. D. ...