James Mellowauthor, critic As literary biographer of the Lost Generation, Mellow chronicled the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. His works include Charmed…
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Tex SchrammAge: 83 professional football executive who, as general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, hired coach Tom Landry. The pair led the team to 20 straight winning seasons and two Super…
Habib BourguibaAge: 96 Tunisian liberator who negotiated independence from France in 1956 and served as president from 1957–1997 when he was deposed. A pro-Western moderate, Bourguiba is…
Jerry HarperAge: 67 center on Alabama's "Rocket Eight" basketball teams of the mid-1950s; team's fives starters and three reserves earned the nickname by compiling records of 19-5 in and 21-3…
Hubert SelbyAge: 75 writer whose Last Exit to Brooklyn explicitly described the underbelly of Brooklyn during the 1950s, revealing an urban wasteland littered with drugs, gangs, and…
Jeff SmithAge: 65 former minister who reinvented himself as public television's Frugal Gourmet. He wrote a series of best-selling cookbooks. His career came to an abrupt end in 1997, when…
Thomas Alva Edison
Born: 1847Birthplace: Milan, Ohio
Electric lampâEdison held 1,093 patents, including those for the incandescent electric lamp, the phonograph, the carbon telephone…
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