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Helen Oakley Dance 2001 Deaths

Helen Oakley DanceAge: 88 jazz critic, producer, and historian who reviewed performances and recordings for Downbeat magazine and worked as a personal assistant to such jazz luminaries as…

Helen Wills Moody 1998 Deaths

Helen Wills MoodyAge: 92 women's tennis great who won eight Wimbledon singles titles in the 1920s and 1930s; won 31 major titles, including seven U.S. championships and four French titles…

Helen Gray Cone: To-Day

To-DayHelen Gray ConeVoice, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion, English scorners of Spain, sweeping the blue sea-way, Sing me the daring of life for life, the…

Helen Gray Cone: The Ride to the Lady

The Ride to the LadyHelen Gray Cone"Now since mine even is come at last, — For I have been the sport of steel, And hot life ebbeth from me fast, And I in saddle roll and reel, — Come bind me…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Rosalind and Helen

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Prince AthanaseJulian and MaddaloRosalind and Helen The story of "Rosalind and Helen" is, undoubtedly, not an attempt in the highest style of poetry. It is in no…

Muncie

(Encyclopedia) MuncieMunciemŭnˈsē [key], city (1990 pop. 71,035), seat of Delaware co., E Ind., on the White River; inc. 1854. It is a trade, processing, and manufacturing center. The city is in a…

Nicolay, John George

(Encyclopedia) Nicolay, John GeorgeNicolay, John Georgenĭkˈəlā [key], 1832–1901, biographer of Lincoln, b. Bavaria. In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co.,…

Vendler, Helen Hennessy

(Encyclopedia) Vendler, Helen Hennessy, 1933–, American poetry critic, b. Boston, Ph.D. Harvard, 1960. One of America's most lucid critics of poetry, uniquely adept at close reading, she is also…

Bridgman, Laura

(Encyclopedia) Bridgman, Laura, 1829–89, the first blind and deaf person to be successfully educated, b. Hanover, N.H. Under the guidance of Dr. S. G. Howe, of the Perkins School for the Blind, she…