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Gale Sayers

Gale SayersBorn: May 30, 1943Football HB 2-time All-America at Kansas; NFL Rookie of Year (1965) and 5-time All-Pro with Chicago; scored then-record 22 TDs in rookie year; led NFC in rushing…

Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers introduced her monocle-wearing detective character, Lord Peter Wimsey, in the 1923 novel Who's Body? Comfortably wealthy, Oxford-schooled, a lover of wine and fine cars, Wimsey…

Lewis, C. S.

(Encyclopedia) Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples Lewis), 1898–1963, English author, b. Belfast, Ireland. A fellow and tutor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1954, C. S. Lewis was noted…

2004 PEN Literary Award Winners

PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama Lanford Wilson Lynn Nottage PEN/Nabokov Award for Career Achievement Mavis Gallant PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Robert Pinsky PEN/Robert Bingham…

Joseph Draper SAYERS, Congress, TX (1841-1929)

SAYERS Joseph Draper , a Representative from Texas; born in Grenada, Grenada County, Miss., September 23, 1841; moved with his father to Bastrop, Tex., in 1851; attended Bastrop Military Institute…

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Bobby RahalJack RamsayBill RassmussenWillis ReedPee Wee ReeseMary Lou RettonButch ReynoldsManon RheaumeGrantland RiceJerry RiceHenri RichardMaurice RichardBob RichardsNolan RichardsonTex…

Black Football Players

Notable African-American Track and Field Athletes   Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials…

Paul, Les

(Encyclopedia) Paul, Les, 1915–2009, American guitarist and inventor, b. Waukesha, Wis., as Lester William Polsfuss (later Polfuss). He began playing…

Williams, Paul

singer, composer, actorBirthplace: Omaha, Neb.Born: 9/19/40