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Dwight Lowry Biography

Dwight LowryAge: 39 award winning minor league manager and former major league player; played catcher for the 1984 World Series Champion Detroit Tigers; named Tigers minor league manager of…

Lois-Ann Yamanaka Biography

Lois-Ann Yamanaka novelistBorn: 1961Birthplace: Ho’olehua, Molokai, Hawaii Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American writer who grew up in Hawaii. With a unique voice that often uses pidgin…

Lois Gould 2002 Deaths

Lois GouldAge: 70 writer who examined the emotionally complex lives of women. Her books include the semi-autobiographical Such Good Friends and Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion…

Colum, Padraic

(Encyclopedia) Colum, PadraicColum, Padraicpäˈdrĭk kŏlˈəm [key], 1881–1972, Irish-American author, b. Longford, Ireland. He was active in the Irish literary renaissance and helped to found the Abbey…

Maslow, Abraham Harold

(Encyclopedia) Maslow, Abraham HaroldMaslow, Abraham Haroldmăzˈlō [key], 1908–70, American psychologist, b. Brooklyn, New York, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin (1934). He taught at Brooklyn College from…

Salford

(Encyclopedia) SalfordSalfordsŏlˈfərd, sôlˈ– [key], city and metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 96,525), NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Irwell River. Salford was long an…

Lois Mailou Jones 1998 Deaths

Lois Mailou JonesAge: 92 painter and leading African-American woman in art. Died: June 9, 1998.Curtis JonesG - LFlorence Griffith Joyner

Lois CAPPS, Congress, CA (1938)

CAPPS Lois , a Representative from California; born in Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis., January 10, 1938; graduated from Flathead County High School, Kalispell, Mont., 1955; B.S., Pacific Lutheran…

Robert LOWRY, Congress, IN (1824-1904)

LOWRY Robert , a Representative from Indiana; born in Killeleigh, County Down, Ireland, April 2, 1824; immigrated to the United States and settled in Rochester, N.Y.; educated in private schools…

Vaughan, Sarah

(Encyclopedia) Vaughan, Sarah (Sarah Lois Vaughan), 1924–90, American jazz singer, b. Newark, N.J. Nicknamed “Sassie” and “the divine one,” she studied piano and organ, began singing in her church…