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Claverhouse, John Graham of

(Encyclopedia)Claverhouse, John Graham of: see Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount. ...

Graham, Otto Everett, Jr.

(Encyclopedia)Graham, Otto Everett, Jr., 1921–2003, American football player and coach, b. Waukegan, Ill. He was an All-American football and basketball player at Northwestern Univ. before he joined the Cleveland...

Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame

(Encyclopedia)Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame: see Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine. ...

Dick, Philip K.

(Encyclopedia)Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred Dick), 1928–82, American science-fiction writer, b. Chicago. Dick often wrote of the psychological states of individuals caught in altered realities where the everyda...

Elkann, John Philip

(Encyclopedia)Elkann, John Philip: see under Agnelli, family. ...

Francis, Sir Philip

(Encyclopedia)Francis, Sir Philip, 1740–1818, British statesman and pamphleteer. He may have been the author known as Junius. He held several minor posts in government offices before being appointed to the counci...

Hench, Philip Showalter

(Encyclopedia)Hench, Philip Showalter, 1896–1965, American physician, b. Pittsburgh, M.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1920. Associated with the Mayo Foundation of the Univ. of Minnesota school of medicine after 1921, he...

Hesse, Philip of

(Encyclopedia)Hesse, Philip of: see Philip of Hesse. ...

Hoffa, James Philip

(Encyclopedia)Hoffa, James Philip: see under Hoffa, Jimmy. ...

Habib, Philip Charles

(Encyclopedia)Habib, Philip Charles häbēbˈ [key], 1920–92, American diplomat, b. New York City. A career foreign service officer (1949–80), he served in various embassy and State Dept. posts. Habib took part...