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Deane BemanBorn: Apr. 22, 1938Golf 1st commissioner of PGA Tour (1974-94); introduced “stadium golf” and created The Players Championship; as player, won U.S. Amateur twice and British…
Larry BearnarthAge: 58 reliever for the N.Y. Mets (1963-66) and appeared briefly with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971; pitching coach for the Montreal Expos and Colorado Rockies; He died of a…
Cynthia Belgravetheater actress and director Belgrave acted in several landmark plays, including Jean Genet's The Blacks and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. With her husband,…
The 1944 Academy Awards were presented March 15, 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Outstanding Motion PictureCasablanca (Warner Bros.)For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paramount)…
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Born: 1847Birthplace: Milan, Ohio
Electric lampâEdison held 1,093 patents, including those for the incandescent electric lamp, the phonograph, the carbon telephone…
Willard Harrison BennettBorn: 1903Birthplace: Findlay, Ohio Radio frequency mass spectrometer—Bennett studies in gases ionized by high voltage electricity was used in controlled thermonuclear…
John Colin Emmett Born: 1939Birthplace: Bradford, England Antiulcer compounds and compositions—Durant, Emmett and Ganellin discovered the drug cimetidine (trade name Tagamet) which inhibits the…
Longmeadow Brook Alarm in Judd's Meadow Pursuit from Bethany Wearily the leaden hours of night dragged themselves onward, while Mrs. Dayton and her frightened children sat, where the…
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