51-year-old former White House volunteer, testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case on March 10. She created a stir the following week when she went on 60 Minutes to discuss the…
U.S. Navy captain, became the first woman to command a warship. She led the USS Jarrett in a six-month-long mission to the Persian Gulf to track down ships smuggling Iraqi oil.
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(Encyclopedia) Kelsey, Frances Oldham, 1914–2015, Canadian-American pharmacologist, b. Cobble Hill, British Columbia, as Frances Kathleen Oldham, grad. McGill Univ. (B.Sc. 1934, M.Sc. 1935), Univ. of…
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(Encyclopedia) Mansfield, Katherine, 1888–1923, British author, b. New Zealand, regarded as one of the masters of the short story. Her original name was Kathleen Beauchamp. A talented cellist, she…
(Encyclopedia) Hepburn, Audrey, 1929–93, British film actress, b. Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she and her mother lived in the…
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