(Encyclopedia) Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 1840–1909, American financier, b. Fairhaven, Mass. After he moved (1860) to Pennsylvania, he entered the oil business, experimented in the refining of…
Juster, Norton
(Encyclopedia) Juster, Norton,
1929-2021, American author and architect, b. New York, N.Y. The son of a
Jewish immigrant architect, Juster studied…
31, British artist, received hordes of free publicity when his collage, The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a black Virgin Mary with elephant feces on one breast and cutouts from…
(Encyclopedia) Currier & Ives, American lithographers and print publishers, who produced highly popular hand-colored prints of contemporary scenes and events in American life. Nathaniel Currier,…
(Encyclopedia) Lost Battalion, in World War I, popular name given to those American units of the 77th Division—six companies of the 1st and 2d battalions of the 308th Infantry, one company of the…
Director: Richard AttenboroughWriters:Allan Scott, Clancy Sigal and Anna Hamilton PhelanDirector of Photography:Roger PrattEditor:Lesley WalkerMusic:George FentonProduction Designer:Stuart…
(Encyclopedia) Baldwin, James, 1924–87, American author, b. New York City. He spent an impoverished boyhood in Harlem, became a Pentecostal preacher at 14, and left the church three years later. He…
