(Encyclopedia) Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1886–1941, American poet and novelist, b. Perryville, Ky., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1921. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain…
Doris TroyAge: 67 pop singer who recorded the 1963 hit “Just One Look.” Her life story inspired the musical Mama, I Want to Sing. Died: Las Vegas, Feb. 16, 2004Boris TrajkovskiR - ZPeter…
Doris WishmanAge: 82? prolific “B” movie director who made several films about nudist camps, including Blaze Star Goes Nudist. Her other tasteless hits include Bad Girls Go to Hell and A…
Doris Kearns GoodwinPulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographiesBorn: 1/4/1943Birthplace: Rockville Centre, New York Goodwin has won wide praise for her meticulous, in-depth…
To Robert Nichols(From Frise on the Somme in February, 1917, in answer
to a letter saying: "I am just finishing my 'Faun's
Holiday.' I wish you were here to feed him with
cherries.") Here by…
Doris Kenner-JacksonAge: 58 singer with The Shirelles, one of pop's most successful girl groups of the 1960s. She sang lead vocals on songs such as “Blue Holiday” and “I Saw a Tear.” The band…
(Encyclopedia) Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian author, b. New Brunswick. He was the first Canadian to be knighted for his work as a writer. He wrote over 67 works, of which…
(Encyclopedia) Vance, Cyrus Roberts, 1917–2002, U.S. secretary of state (1977–80), b. Clarksburg, W.Va., grad. Yale (B.A., 1939, LL.B., 1942). After seeing action in the Navy during World War II,…
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Of this much lov'd, much honoured name!
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by Robert Burns On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald DownsThe Lovely Lass O' InvernessSonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell Of Glenriddell and Friars' Carse. No more, ye warblers of…
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