Biography Category
(k v´ nd sh) (KEY) , pseud. of Henry Jones, 1831–99, English card game expert. Jones studied medicine, practiced in London, and retired in 1868. He...
(Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel) (sh n l´) (KEY) , 1883–1971, French fashion designer. She established her house of couture in Paris. An enormously influ...
1913–, American fashion designer, b. Paris as Oleg Cassini Loiewski. Raised in Italy, he came to the United States in 1936, where in the 1940s he de...
(kôr´d - ´´) (KEY) , 1901–75, American educator and public official, b. Canton, Ohio. He studied at Manchester College in Indiana, where he late...
(zhän lw z äNr t´ käNpäN´) (KEY) , 1752–1822, French educator and author. She served as a reader to Louis XV’s daughters and as lady-in-wai...
(kr m´ n) (KEY) , 1925–91, American educator and historian, b. New York City. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1949 and began teaching at Tea...