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Whitney M. Young, Jr. Biography

Whitney M. Young, Jr.social reformerBorn: 7/31/1921Birthplace: Lincoln Ridge, Ky. As executive director of the National Urban League (1961–1971) Young focused on gaining equality for blacks…

John M. Karr, 2006 News

schoolteacher, was arrested in Bangkok in August in connection with the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr, in front of a throng of reporters, said, “I was with JonBenet when…

John M. Ford 2006 Deaths

John M. FordAge: 49 author who wrote several science fiction and fantasy novels and numerous poems and short stories. His work often drew upon, and played with the conventions of, multiple…

M. Scott Peck 2005 Deaths

M. Scott PeckAge: 69 psychiatrist and author who wrote one of the first self-help books The Road Less Traveled. The book has spent 694 weeks on the bestseller list. Died: Warren, Conn., Sept…

Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Biography

Frank M. Johnson, Jr.Age: 80 uncompromising federal judge from Alabama whose rulings helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Luther King Jr.…

Earl M. Ramer 1998 Deaths

Earl M. RamerAge: 84 former NCAA president in 1971 and 1972 and 34-year member of the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; served two decades as faculty athletics…

M. Donald Grant 1998 Deaths

M. Donald GrantAge: 94 former chairman of the board of the NY Mets from their inception in 1962 to 1978 when he was voted out by the team's eight-man board; won two pennants and one World…

Edith M. Thomas: The Inverted Torch

The Inverted TorchEdith M. ThomasThreading a darksome passage all alone, The taper's flame, by envious current blown, Crouched low, and eddied round, as in affright, So challenged by the vast…

Edith M. Thomas: Winter Sleep

Winter SleepEdith M. ThomasI know it must be winter (though I sleep) — I know it must be winter, for I dream I dip my bare feet in the running stream, And flowers are many, and the grass…

Humphrey, Hubert Horatio

(Encyclopedia) Humphrey, Hubert Horatio, 1911–78, U.S. Vice President (1965–69), b. Wallace, S.Dak. After practicing pharmacy for several years, Humphrey taught political science and became involved…