(Encyclopedia) Mond, Alfred Moritz, 1st Baron MelchettMond, Alfred Moritz, 1st Baron Melchettmŏnd, mĕlˈchĭt [key], 1868–1930, English industrialist and politician; son of Ludwig Mond. He played a…
Alfred KantorAge: 79 artist whose works chronicled the unimaginable horrors of concentration camps at Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Schwarzheide. He destroyed most of the works he created in…
Alfred NzoAge: 74 African politician who began fighting apartheid in South Africa as a student with the African National Congress Youth League. He spent his entire career with the A.N.C. and…
Alfred SchwarzmannAge: 87 German Olympic gymnast; won three gold medals and two bronze at the 1936 Games and won one a silver 16 years later, at age 40, for West Germany at the Helsinki Games…
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Age: 87 heir to one of the country's wealthiest and best-known families and horse-racing impresario. Made a career of thoroughbred racing, as he bred dozens of…
Old ManuscriptAlfred KreymborgThe sky
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary.
To read it all,
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom;…
Sir Alfred HitchcockdirectorBorn: 8/13/1899Birthplace: London, England British director famous for his dark, voyeuristic suspense films. He is best known for Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window…
(Encyclopedia) Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich), 1909–2001, British art historian and scholar, b. Vienna, grad. Univ. of Vienna (1933). From a culturally prominent Austrian-Jewish family,…
ELLIOTT Alfred James , a Representative from California; born in Guinda, Yolo County, Calif., June 1, 1895;
moved with his parents to Winters, Calif., in 1901 and to Tulare, Calif., in 1910;…
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