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William 'Payne' Whitney William Payne Whitney was a wealthy American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. The son of William Collins Whitney and Flora Payne, and younger brot...

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Helen Julia Whitney (Hay) Helen Julia Hay Whitney was an American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist. She was a member, by marriage, of the prominent Whitn...

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William Thomas Gaddis, Jr . (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.[1][2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100...

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Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (...

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Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), known professionally as Dovima, was an American supermodel during the 1950s.

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Biography Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television...

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Frank Stella was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He worked and lived mainly in New York City. Sources "F...

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Peter Laurence Gordon (born June 20, 1951) is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist and experimental composer,[1] whose influences include jazz, disco, funk, rock, opera, classical and world mu...

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The New York Times once called her books "a rock 'n' roll version of the Critique of Pure Reason by the Marquis de Sade as performed by the Three Stooges". Biographical note NYU Special Collections S...

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Interment per New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949. He was the son of Rawleigh Colston and Elizabeth Marshall Colston. Image Honeywood plantation home of his father in Virginia Categ...

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Arthur Baldwin Turnure Founder of Vogue Magazine

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Biography Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which incl...

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Albert Axelrod was an American foil fencer. He was a five-time Olympian for the U.S., won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, and was the only American men's foil fencer to reach the finals at the wor...

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Biography Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024),[ professionally known as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer and dancer who originated roles in ...

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Nicole Ross is an American foil fencer. Fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team, she won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title, and was a three time All-American. At the 2012 Summer Olympics ...

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ARCHIVE: L.A. TImes OBITUARIES : Monte Kay, 63; Producer, Manager and Club Founder dies at 63 … L.A. Times May 27, 1988 Monte Kay, record producer, personal manager and founder of several jazz clubs i...

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Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter.[1] Known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday", "What Have The...

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Biography Albert Maysles (26 November 1926 - 5 March 2015) and David Maysles (rhymes with "hazels") (10 January 1932 – 3 January 1987) were a documentary filmmaking team whose “direct cinema” works inc...

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Beth Manoff (born January 25, 1958)[2] is an American stage, film and television actress and television director best known for her roles as Elaine Lefkowitz on Soap, Marty Maraschino in the film Greas...

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"...the great Sam Shepard passed away at his home in Kentucky on Thursday July 27, according to Broadway World. An unstoppable force in the film industry and in theatre, Sam was 73 years old when he ...

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