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(Encyclopedia) Auchincloss, Louis (Louis Stanton Auchincloss) ôˈkĭnklŏs [key], 1917–2010, American novelist and man of letters, b. Lawrence, New York; studied Yale, Univ. of Virginia Law School (LL.B., 1941). ...

(Encyclopedia) New Castle. 1 City (1990 pop. 4,837), New Castle co., N Del., on the Delaware River. Mineral, metal, food, paper, and gypsum products are among its varied manufactures. It is also a major book distrib...

(Encyclopedia) Knight, Gwendolyn: see Lawrence, Jacob. ...

(Encyclopedia) McMillan, Edwin Mattison, 1907–91, American physicist, b. Redondo Beach, Calif., grad. California Institute of Technology, 1928, Ph.D. Princeton, 1932. On the faculty of the Univ. of California from...

(Encyclopedia) Trois Rivières trwä rēvyĕrˈ [key] or Three Rivers, city (1991 pop. 49,426), S Que., Canada, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Maurice rivers. It is a port and an industrial center. Th...

(Encyclopedia) Durrell, Gerald, see under Durrell, Lawrence. ...

(Encyclopedia) Herblock: see Block, Herbert Lawrence. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tadema, Alma: see Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence. ...

(Encyclopedia) Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3d earl of rŏtˈslē [key], 1573–1624, English nobleman and patron of letters. He succeeded to his title in 1581, was educated at Cambridge, and gained favor at the ...

(Encyclopedia) Mount Hopkins Observatory: see Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. ...