Biography Category
(l ´m ks) (KEY) , 1867–1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax’s first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in prin...
(Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke) (b ´d rb k) (KEY) , 1903–31, American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer, b. Davenport, Iowa. Mainly self-taught, he...
1859–1952, American philosopher and educator, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Vermont, 1879, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1884. He taught at the universi...
1893–1971, American movie actor, b. Burchard, Kans. Lloyd was famous for his comic portrayals of a wistful innocent with horn-rimmed glasses who blu...
(hôrk´h ´´m r, hôr´k ´´–) (KEY) , 1895–1973, German philosopher and sociologist. As director (1930–58) of the Institute for Social Resea...
1911–60, British philosopher. A graduate of Oxford, he was a fellow of All Souls (1933–35) and Magdalen (1935–52) colleges before he became Whit...