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1865–1946, American economist, b. Sterling, Ill., studied at DePauw Univ. and at the Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1900. He taught ...
(yûr´k z, –k s) (KEY) , 1837–1905, American financier, b. Philadelphia. He began his business career as a clerk in a Philadelphia grain commissi...
(py r s môN´ f rny ´) (KEY) , 1712–68, Parisian type founder. Fournier devised the first point system for measuring and naming sizes of type in 1...
(Nora Koreff), 1920–87, American ballerina, b. New York City. Kaye studied with Michel Fokine and Antony Tudor. She joined the Ballet Theatre in 194...
1827–1905, American financier, b. Philadelphia; great-nephew of Caspar Wistar. His early manhood was spent adventurously in the West as a muleteer, ...
1899–1936, convicted kidnapper and murderer, b. Germany. The infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted (Mar. 1, 1932) at Hopewell...