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Jack Paar

Jack Paar is best known for hosting the Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Paar gained a reputation as a thinking man's talk show host, and also for a certain emotional sensitivity: in one famous 1960…

Robert Metcalfe Biography

inventorBorn: 1946 With his invention of Ethernet, Metcalfe created a way to link computers to one another and to the Internet. Ethernet is the most widely used…

Vince Edwards

Vince Edward's series Ben Casey was the E.R. of its time. Running from 1961-66 on ABC, the series was a pioneer of the 'real-life hospital' school of drama. (The show's opening lines -- "Man, Woman…

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2003 News

U.S. senator and former first lady, increased her already high profile with the immensely publicized June release of her not-so-revealing memoir, Living History. Clinton made the rounds on…

Mister Ed

The TV comedy Mister Ed ran on the CBS network from 1961 to 1966. The title star was a cantankerous talking horse who would speak only to his owner, Wilbur Post, and played dumb when anyone else was…

Robert A. Daly, 1999 News

62, and Terry Semel, 55, cochairmen of Warner Bros., resigned in July from the entertainment empire. The pair, who have been partners at Warners for almost 20 years, plan to form a new…

Dan Rather, 2001 News

CBS Evening News anchor, made headlines over the summer for refusing to report the news—or at least what other news outlets deemed newsworthy—about the disappearance of government intern…

Ahmed Shah Massoud, 2001 News

legendary guerrilla leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which has relentlessly challenged the Taliban since 1996, was killed in a September suicide bombing. His attackers, two…