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Edward W. Clayborn

In The Ganymede Takeover, the San Franciscan author Philip K. Dick, a record enthusiast, has a character state that "True Religion", sung by Clayborn was one of the first jazz recordings.


Audition: A Memoir

Walters discusses her work and personal life, confessing to an affair with Senator Edward W. Brooke and describing her relationship with Alan Greenspan.

BEA Systems

The company's name is an acronym of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang.

Brian Lees

Early in his career, he served as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke.

C. Fred Bergsten

In 2001, he co-founded the Center for Global Development along with Edward W. Scott, Jr. and Nancy Birdsall.

Chimmie Fadden

The film starred Victor Moore in the title role and is based on the play and short story of the same name by Edward W. Townsend.

Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire

Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire - A Fairy Excuse for Songs and Dances in 3 Acts is a musical with music by Louis F. Gottschalk and Edward W. Carliss, lyrics by D.K. Stevens, and R.A. Barnett, and additional musical numbers by D.J. Sullivan, J. S. Chipman, and D.K. Stevens.

Congressional Black Caucus

Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded: Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut, Delegate Melvin H. Evans of the Virgin Islands, Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, Representative Allen West of Florida, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Edward Barrett

Edward W. Barrett (1910–1989), dean of Columbia School of Journalism

Edward Gardner

Edward W. Gardner (1867–1932), American balkline and straight rail billiards champion

Edward W. B. Newby

His command maintained detachments at various times at Taos, Abiquiu, Mora, Las Vegas, Galisteo, Albuquerque, Cebolleta, Tome, and Socorro until the war's end.

Edward W. Carmack

Carmack failed to secure reelection to a second Senate term, being succeeded by former governor of Tennessee Robert L. Taylor, and returned to the practice of law.

He attended The Webb School, then at Culleoka, Tennessee.

Edward W. Carter

In 1945, he served as an executive of Broadway Stores, later endowed with 150 stores and sales of $7.5 billion a year.

Edward W. Creal

He was reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 5, 1935, until his death in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on October 13, 1943.

Creal was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cap R. Carden.

Edward W. Crosby

Dr. Donald Henderson, then director of the Experiment in Higher Education, lectured on the Black Aesthetic.

Edward W. Goss

Goss was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Glynn and at the same time was elected to the Seventy-second Congress.

He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

He was reelected to the Seventy-third Congress and served from November 4, 1930, to January 3, 1935.

Edward W. Heston

The Heston Mansion, located near the current Heston School, was built in 1800 and was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1872; it was demolished in 1901 to make way for a railroad.

He founded a village along the Lancaster Pike named Hestonville, in the former Blockley Township, now part of Philadelphia.

Edward W. Moser

In 1951 they went to live in the Mexican state of Sonora to live with the Seri people and learn the Seri language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Edward W. Moser (1924–1976) was an American linguist and expert in the Seri language and culture working with the Summer institute of Linguistics.

Edward W. Townsend

He died in New York City on March 15, 1942, and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.

His most popular fictional writings were his "Chimmie Fadden" Bowery boy stories.

Edward W. Veitch

Maurice Karnaugh, November 1953, The Map Method for Synthesis of Combinational Logic Circuits, AIEE Committee on Technical Operations for presentation at the AIEE summer General Meeting, Atlantic City, N. J., June 15–19, 1953, pp.

In his 1952 paper "A Chart Method for Simplifying Truth Functions", Veitch described a graphical procedure for the optimization of logic circuits, a year later (1953) refined in a paper by Maurice Karnaugh into what is now known as the Karnaugh map method.

Euler diagram

Thus the matter would rest until 1952 when Maurice Karnaugh (1924– ) would adapt and expand a method proposed by Edward W. Veitch; this work would rely on the truth table method precisely defined in Emil Post's 1921 PhD thesis "Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions" and the application of propositional logic to switching logic by (among others) Claude Shannon, George Stibitz, and Alan Turing.

Edward W. Veitch 1952 "A Chart Method for Simplifying Truth Functions", Transactions of the 1952 ACM Annual Meeting, ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting "Pittsburgh", ACM, NY, pp.

Florence Cook

A number of the witnesses, such as Edward W. Cox, recorded their doubts about the proceedings, while others claimed that they had seen the two clearly, such as Crookes and Florence Marryat, who claimed that she had seen Katie naked in Florence's company.

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Founded in 2004 by Edward W. Scott, Adam Waldman and Jack Valenti, Friends of the Global Fight works to educate and mobilize U.S. decision makers to support the Global Fund and the fight to end the worldwide burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

James E. Webb

Webb enjoyed a long career in public service in Washington, D.C., first serving as a secretary to US Rep. Edward W. Pou of North Carolina in 1932–34.

Lapita culture

The excavation was carried out in 1952 by American archaeologists Edward W. Gifford and Richard Shulter Jr at 'Site 13'.

Lejaren Hiller, Sr.

The collection was widely acclaimed, and in 1937 won the Edward Bok Award for advertising.

Louis Freeland Post

In a dramatic exchange, Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democratic supporter of the anti-radical campaign, praised Post's actions–"I believe you have followed your sense of duty absolutely"–and left the room in stunned silence.

Mountain Lake Estates Historic District

Such wealthy and widely known people as Edward W. Bok (long-time editor of Ladies' Home Journal and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author), August Heckscher (benefactor of the Heckscher Museum of Art), and Irving T. Bush (of Bush Terminal, Bush Tower, and Bush House fame) subsequently became early "snowbirds" and established winter homes in or near Mountain Lake Estates.

Propositional formula

Willard Quine 1952 and 1955, E. W. Veitch 1952, and M. Karnaugh (1953) develop map-methods for simplifying propositional functions.

Robert J. C. Young

White Mythologies was the first book to characterize postcolonial theory as a field in itself, and to identify the work of Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha and the Subaltern Studies historians as its intellectual core.

Samuel H. Scripps

Mr. Scripps' grandfather, Edward W. Scripps, founded United Press International (UPI) and the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which at one time was the nation's largest.


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