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Walton, Sir William Turner
(Encyclopedia) Walton, Sir William Turner, 1902–83, English composer, b. Oldham. Walton studied at Oxford. One of his earliest works was a piano quartet (1918–19). In 1923, Façade, satirical poems by…Walton, Sam
(Encyclopedia) Walton, Sam (Samuel Moore Walton), 1918–92, American retailing executive, b. Kingfisher, Okla. After 17 years of operating franchise retail stores, he opened the first Wal-Mart…Walton, Alice Louise
(Encyclopedia) Walton, Alice Louise: see under Walton, Sam.Albert Clinton WILLFORD, Congress, IA (1877-1937)
WILLFORD Albert Clinton , a Representative from Iowa; born in Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, September 21, 1877; attended the country and town schools and Tilford's Academy, Vinton, Iowa; employed…Walton and Weybridge
(Encyclopedia) Walton and WeybridgeWalton and Weybridgewāˈbrĭj [key], city (19981 pop. 50,031), Surrey, SE England. It is largely a residential suburb of London. There is market gardening, an…U.S. Societies & Associations (I)
Illustrators, Society of (1901): 128 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021. 865. Phone: (212) 838-2560. www.societyillustrators.org. Industrial Engineers, Institute of (1948): 3577 Parkway Lane, Ste.…Walton, George
(Encyclopedia) Walton, George, 1741?–1804, American Revolutionary patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. near Farmville, Va. He moved to Savannah, Ga., where he established a law…Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton
(Encyclopedia) Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton, 1903–95, Irish physicist, educated at Methodist College (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity College in…Oldham
(Encyclopedia) Oldham, metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 107,095), NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area. The city's industries include papermaking, tanning, food processing, and mail…Brewer's: Angling
The father of angling, Izaak Walton (1593–1683). Angling is called “the gentle craft”; shoemaking was also so called. Probably there is a pun concealed in the first of these; a common bait…