Biography Category
(v l´wä) (KEY) , 1898–2001, English ballet director, b. County Wicklow, Ireland. She was originally named Edris Stannus. After attaining distincti...
1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif. as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. She learned French cooking...
(mä´yä pl s ts´käyä) (KEY) , 1925–, Russian dancer. Pliesetskaya became a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on graduating from its sc...
(d ´l n) (KEY) , 1904–83, English ballet dancer and choreographer, originally named Patrick Healey-Kay. Dolin joined Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in ...
1761–1821, British civil engineer. In London he designed the Waterloo (1811–17) and Southwark (1815–19) bridges. London Bridge, also designed by...
1936–, American biologist, b. York, Penn., M.D. Harvard, 1962. He worked (1964–68) as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesd...