C. Donald BatemanBorn: 1932 Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). In response to tragic airline crashes during the 1960s, Bateman invented a device that automatically warned pilots if…
Donald EvansGeorge W. Bush's secretary of Commerce, first termBorn: 7/26/1946Birthplace: Houston, Tex. President Bush's best friend, this was Evans's first position in government. The…
Donald MillsAge: 84 entertainer who was the last member of the Mills Brothers trio, whose career spanned seven decades. The group recorded 2,246 songs, including the hits “Up a Lazy River”…
American poetBorn: September 20, 1928Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Donald Hall is known for his descriptions of rural landscape --…
Donald DavisactorBorn: 2/26/1928Birthplace: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Best-known for his work in New York and Canadian theater from the 1950s to the 1990s, he also occasionally appeared in feature…
Donald SutherlandactorBorn: 7/17/1934Birthplace: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada Film actor who struggled for years as a supporting actor before establishing himself as a lead in M*A*S*H (…
(Encyclopedia) Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr., 1913–2008, American physicist, b. Los Angeles, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1938. Lamb was a professor at Columbia (1938–51), Stanford (1951–56),…
(Encyclopedia) Arledge, Roone Pinckney, Jr., 1931–2002, American television executive, b. Forest Hills, N.Y., grad. Columbia (B.A., 1952). He was a producer-director (1955–60) at the National…
(Encyclopedia) Coleman, William Thaddeus, Jr., 1920–2017, African-American lawyer and U.S. cabinet official, b. Philadelphia, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1941, Harvard Law School, 1946. He clerked…
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