Leon BarzinAge: 98 famous conductor who headed the National Orchestra Association for 36 years. He was also the musical head of the New York City Ballet in the 1940s and '50s. Died: Naples,…
Joey DunlopAge: 48 five-time motorcycle champion who was awarded an OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for his charity work and an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British…
Herman BallAge: 88 Washington Redskins head coach from 1949 through part of the 1951 season; won seven career games; spent eight years on the Redskins' coaching staff before stints with…
Viktor HamburgerAge: 100 experimental embryologist who analyzed the developing nervous system. In 1954, he and two colleagues, Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen, discovered the first…
Ruth DykAge: 99 activist who for decades championed women's rights. In her long career, Dyk worked as a psychiatric social worker with delinquent girls, wrote books on psychology, and studied…
Author:Ian McEwanPublisher:Doubleday Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan is in top form with Enduring Love. Intellectual detail and meticulous plot construction combine to create a…
Bobby ThomsonBorn: Oct. 25, 1923Baseball OF career .270 hitter who won the 1951 NL pennant for the NY Giants with a 1-out, 3-run HR in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 3 of a best-of-3…
Jim ThorpeBorn: May 28, 18882-time All-America in football won both pentathlon and decathlon at 1912 Olympics; stripped of medals a month later for playing semi-pro baseball prior to Games;…
(Encyclopedia) Lumet, SidneyLumet, Sidneyl&oomacr;-mĕtˈ [key], 1924–2011, one of the great American film directors of the 20th cent., b. Philadelphia. A child actor in New York's Yiddish radio…
