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Cal Abrams Biography

Cal AbramsAge: 72 probably best remembered for being thrown out at home plate as a Brooklyn Dodger in the last of the ninth in the final game of the 1950 World Series; had he scored on Duke…

1957 Tony Awards

PlayLong Day's Journey Into NightMusicalMy Fair LadyActor—PlayFredric March, Long Day's Journey Into NightActress—PlayMargaret Leighton, Separate TablesSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayFrank…

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

(Encyclopedia) Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), sometimes called Campbellites, a Protestant religious body founded early in the 19th cent. in the United States. Its primary thesis is that the…

1 Samuel: 17

1 Samuel Chapter 17 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in…

2 Samuel: 4

2 Samuel Chapter 4 1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2 And Saul's son had two men that were…

Charles Schwarz, 2002 News

former New York police officer, in February had his convictions of obstructing of justice and civil rights violations in the Abner Louima torture case overturned. He was granted a new trial…

Justin A. Volpe, 1999 News

27, New York City police officer, admitted in court in May that he tortured and meant to humiliate Haitian immigrant Abner Louima when he rammed a broom handle into the man's rectum and then…

WILSON, Thomas, Congress, PA (1772-1824)

WILSON Thomas , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1772; attended the common schools; had the contract for supplying the western forts of the…

John Edward PORTER, Congress, IL (1935)

PORTER John Edward , a Representative from Illinois; born in Evanston, Cook County, Ill., June 1, 1935; attended the public schools and graduated from Evanston Township High School, 1953; attended…