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4 unusual facts about Richard J. Kaufman


Derek Dingle

His most popular publication, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle (Richard J. Kaufman, 1982), has been out of print for many years now, but has recently been re-published by Richard Kaufman.

Richard J. Kaufman

By the age of 14 he was already inventing magic effects and he illustrated his first book at age 16 (Afterthoughts by Harry Lorayne).

Alan C. Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns, also a highly respected amateur magician, brought the financing that Kaufman required and the company Kaufman and Greenberg was born.

Richard Kaufman

Richard J. Kaufman (born 1958), author, publisher, illustrator and editor


Adolph Kiefer

In the 1960s he worked with Mayor Richard J. Daley to build swimming-pools across the inner city of Chicago, providing the facilities needed for thousands of children to learn to swim.

Alan S. Kaufman

Kaufman mentored, among others, Cecil R. Reynolds, Randy W. Kamphaus, Bruce Bracken, Steve McCallum, Jack A. Naglieri, and Patti Harrison, all of whom became Professors at major universities and authors of some of the most widely used psychological tests in the United States.

Algonquin Hotel

Some of the core members of the "Vicious Circle" included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott.

Barmy in Wonderland

Wodehouse adapted the novel from a play, The Butter and Egg Man, by George S. Kaufman and, echoing Shakespeare's dedication of his Sonnets, dedicated the US edition to "the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, Mr G S K".

Brian M. Hughes

His father was two-term New Jersey Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes.

Cadence SKILL

SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called “Franz Lisp” created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman.

Chicago Temple Building

The temple is located at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Street across from the Richard J. Daley Center which houses offices for the offices for the city of Chicago and Cook County courts and the Chicago Picasso.

Cook County Courthouse

Richard J. Daley Center, the location of the Court of Cook County, Illinois

Duoplasmatron

Later development by Harold R. Kaufman resulted in the Kaufman Duoplasmatron which has been used for applications as diverse as semiconductor manufacture, and spacecraft propulsion.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Electrostatic ion thruster

and developed in practical form by Harold R. Kaufman at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center from 1957 to the early 1960s.

First Unitarian Church of Chicago

Its first building was constructed in 1841 on what is now the site of the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza.

Gordon D. Kaufman

Kaufman was an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years, and he was also the subject of two Festschriften.

Greta Nissen

In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.

Helaman

LDS leader Richard J. Maynes cited this entire episode in a General Conference as containing good examples of covenant-keeping behavior.

Hollywood Pinafore

Hollywood Pinafore, or The Lad Who Loved a Salary is a musical comedy in two acts by George S. Kaufman, with music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

Jim Ferree

Ferree was born in Pinebluff, North Carolina, and grew up in Winston-Salem, where he attended Reynolds High School.

Joseph M. Keegan

Keegan lost his Senate reelection bid in 1967 after supporting an unpopular bill to provide unemployment benefits for certain striking workers, at the behest of then-Governor Richard J. Hughes.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

Max Predöhl

Richard J. Evans: Tod in Hamburg: Stadt, Gesellschaft und Politik in den Cholera-Jahren 1830-1910, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996.

Nazi views on Catholicism

Richard J. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run National Socialism and religion would not be able to co-exist, and stressed repeatedly that Nazism was a secular ideology, founded on modern science: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition".

Nollaig Ó Gadhra

He authored several important academic works, including biographies of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Mahatma Gandhi, Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and John Boyle O'Reilly, many of which were written in Irish.

Process theology

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

The founding co-editors of the journal were Jeffrey Smith, Lisa Smith, and James C. Kaufman.

Richard Atkinson

Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994), British prehistorian and archaeologist

Richard Daley

Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), Mayor of Chicago (1955–1976), father of Richard M. Daley

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Richard Gill

Richard J. Gill (1886–?), lumberman and political figure in New Brunswick

Richard J. Berkley

He was a popular member of the expedition evidenced by the naming of Berkley Island after him.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Richard J. Codey Arena

A number of coaches at ESC are Worlds and Olympic medalists such as Kay Barsdell, Oleg Bliakhman, Ken Foster and JoJo Starbuck.

Richard J. Collins

He worked on several notable programs including Bonanza, General Electric Theater, Matlock and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre.

Richard J. Gambino

In 1992 Gambino received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award together with Praveen Chaudhari and Jerome J. Cuomo, "for the discovery of amorphous magnetic films used in magneto-optic data storage systems".

Richard J. Griffin

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Richard J. Maybury

He also states that Muslims are responsible for preserving the philosophies of ancient people, such as Aristotle.

Richard J. Mayer

Richard J. Mayer was the Principal Investigator on the projects of developing IDEF3, IDEF4 en IDEF6.

He was the lead engineer during the development of the information and data modeling methods IDEF1 and IDEF1X while at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Richard J. Miller

Dick was graduated, A.B from Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan and earned an A.M. degree from Michigan State University.

Richard J. Phelps

In 1988, Phelps ran in a special election for the office of Dane County, Wisconsin County Executive against Joe Wineke.

Richard J. Tonry

Tonry was elected as a Democrat to the 74th United States Congress, holding office from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937.

Richard J. Welch

Welch was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence J. Flaherty.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

She married Richard John Kerry, in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 1941, and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.

Shirley Wilson

Prior to coaching at Elon, he coached football at Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

The title of the short is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.


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