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unusual facts about Frank R. Sinclair



Charles Scribner's Sons

The company launched St. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor; it became well known as a children's magazine.

Clayton Lawrence Bissell

Between October and December 1925, he served as assistant defense counsel for Mitchell during his court martial, under the direction of lead counsel Congressman Frank R. Reid.

Eugene Octave Sykes

Seated (l-r) Eugene Octave Sykes, Frank R. McNinch, Chairman Paul Atlee Walker, Standing (l-r) T.A.M. Craven, Thad H. Brown, Norman S. Case, and George Henry Payne.

Frank Day

Frank R. Day (1853–1899), entrepreneur and politician in Los Angeles and Monterey, California

Frank Elliott

Frank R. Elliott (1877–1931), hardware merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Frank Mayo

Frank R. Mayo (1908–1987), SRI chemist who won the 1967 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry for Mayo–Lewis equation

Frank R. Adams

Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now".

Frank R. Crozier

Frank Rossiter Crozier (1883–1948) was a war records artist who is represented in the Australian War Memorial's art collection along with other Official War Artists such as H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton, George Lambert and Ivor Hele.

Frank R. McNinch

The controversial 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast occurred during his tenure as FCC head.

Frank R. Paul

The latter featured the debuts of Human Torch and Sub-Mariner, and good copies sell at auction for twenty to thirty thousand dollars.

Frank R. Reid

Reid was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Frank R. Stockton

Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Gurdjieff Foundation

It was then led by Dr. William J. Welch until his death in 1999, after which it was led jointly by Paul Reynard, a painter and teacher of Gurdjieff Movements, and Frank R. Sinclair, author of Without Benefit of Clergy and Of the Life Aligned, until Reynard's death in 2005.

Jane Turpin

The enduring image of Jane was due to the illustration of Frank R. Grey, who was with the publishing house of Robert Hale.

Jed Prouty

They were seventeen low-budget 20th Century Fox family comedies between 1936 and 1940, along with his steady co-star Spring Byington as Mrs. Jones, for directors like Malcolm St. Clair and Frank R. Strayer.

John A. Sinclair

John Alexander Sinclair, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1953 to 1956.

Mary P. Sinclair

Public Broadcasting Service carried the show nationally, and the transcript was printed in the Michigan Education Association's publication, Teacher’s Voice.

When Consumers Power announced their intentions to build the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in 1967, Mary Sinclair's background in nuclear fission technology prompted her to write a letter to the editor questioning the safety of several elements of their plan.

Neo-Tech

Neo-Tech, a philosophy being promoted by the above company.

Paul Atlee Walker

Seated (l-r) Eugene Octave Sykes, Frank R. McNinch, Chairman Paul Atlee Walker, Standing (l-r) T.A.M. Craven, Thad H. Brown, Norman S. Case, and George Henry Payne.

Peter J. N. Sinclair

His first job, before the university, was in the export department of Linde AG in Germany.

A former visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and Queen's University in Canada, he has also lectured in China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, Poland, Russia and the U.S. He is currently a visiting professor at The London School of Economics and University of Warwick, and chairman of the Royal Economic Society Easter School, and the International Economics Study Group.

Robert J. Sinclair

Some 250,000 of the Saab 900 convertible were sold (including the NG900) over the succeeding two decades.

Robert J. Sinclair, (March 17, 1932 — May 10, 2009) was a United States automotive industry executive who served as Chief executive officer of Saab-Scania of America from May 1979 until September 1991, where he helped improve the popularity of Saab's cars by convincing the parent company to manufacture cars with high-end options such as turbochargers and a convertible version of its Saab 900 that was designed to appeal to American consumers.

In the 1980s, Sinclair was named a Commander of the Order of the Polar Star by Sweden's King Carl Gustav XVI, the country's highest honor awarded to non-heads of state for contributions to Sweden's economy and culture.

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).


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