musicianBorn: September 28, 1928Died: June 3, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Best Known as: blues singer Born in Tennessee, the daughter of a sharecropper,…
by Robert Burns The Gallant WeaverYou're Welcome, Willie StewartEpigram At Brownhill Inn[1] At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer,
And plenty of bacon each day in the…
by Robert Burns Inscription At Friars' Carse HermitageWee Willie GrayThere Was A Bonie Lass There was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass,
And she lo'ed her bonie laddie dear…
The 50th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 17, 1999, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:Waiting, Ha Jin (Pantheon)Nonfiction:Embracing Defeat: Japan in the…
Bill MauldinAge: 81 army sergeant and cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his works featuring Willie and Joe, two bedraggled World War II infantrymen who battled not only the Germans, but…
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Donald LiddleAge: 75 N.Y. Giants pitcher who threw the pitch that Cleveland's Vic Wertz drove 460 feet and Willie Mays turned into his famous over-the-shoulder catch during Game 1 of the 1954…
Eddie DonovanAge: 78 former general manager and coach of the N.Y. Knicks; drafted Willis Reed in 1964 and dealt for Dave DeBusschere in 1968, two moves that helped New York win its first NBA…
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