Bud GreenspanBorn: Sept. 18, 1926Filmmaker specializing in the Olympic Games has won Emmy awards for 22-part “The Olympiad” (1976-77) and historical vignettes for ABC-TV's coverage of 1980…
Gen. Douglas MacArthurBorn: Jan. 26, 1880Controversial U.S. general of World War II and Korea president of U.S. Olympic Committee (1927-28); college football devotee, National Football…
Sirimavo BandaranaikeAge: 84 Sri Lankan politician who, in 1960, became the first woman in the world to serve as a nation's prime minister. She became prime minister a year after her husband…
William MaxwellAge: 91 writer and legendary New Yorker fiction editor who gracefully polished the work of such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Eudora Welty. His…
George SidneyAge: 85 director of such movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies, Annie Get Your Gun, and Kiss Me Kate. He also directed Anchors Aweigh, the first film to combine live action and…
Awarded to the player “adjudged to be the most valuable to his team” and named after Cecil Hart, the former manager-coach of the Montreal Canadiens. Winners selected by Pro Hockey Writers…
YOUNGBLOOD Harold Francis , a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., August 7,
1907; attended the public schools; was graduated from St. Joseph's Commercial College…
STEELE Thomas Jefferson , a Representative from Iowa;
born near Rushville, Rush County, Ind., March 19, 1853;
attended the public schools and Axline Seminary, Fairfax, Iowa;
taught school in…
TAUL Micah , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Bladensburg, Md., May 14,
1785; moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787; attended private school;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in…
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