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Frank Wall Biography

Frank WallAge: 78 former NFL Falcons' club president; played a major role in bringing the team to Atlanta; close friend of team owner Ranklin Smith Jr.; became vice president and treasurer…

Steve McCrory 2000 Deaths

Steve McCroryAge: 36 Olympic boxing gold medallist in the flyweight division at the 1984 Games; brother Milton won welterweight world championship; Detroit native whose success brought fame…

Henry (Bunny) Austin 2000 Deaths

Henry (Bunny) AustinAge: 94 teamed with Fred Perry to help Britain win four Davis Cup finals in a row (1933-36); reached singles finals at Wimbledon in 1932 and 1938 and the 1937 French Open…

Bud Greenspan

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 MacArthur

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…

William Maxwell 2000 Deaths

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…

Sirimavo Bandaranaike 2000 Deaths

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…

George Sidney 2002 Deaths

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…

Hart Memorial Trophy

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…

Art Ross Trophy—Leading Scorer

Art Ross Trophy—Leading Scorer1955 Bernie Geoffrion, Montreal1956 Jean Beliveau, Montreal1957 Gordie Howe, Detroit1958–59 Dickie Moore, Montreal1960 Bobby Hull, Chicago1961 Bernie Geoffrion,…