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Anton "Tony" Hulman Jr. (February 11, 1901 – October 27, 1977) was an American businessman from Terre Haute, Indiana, who bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1945 and brought racing back to the famous race course after a four-year hiatus following World War II.
The Hulman family is a family of Indiana businesspeople and philanthropists best known as the former owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indy Racing League and Hulman & Co., which produces Clabber Girl Baking Powder. Notable members include: Anton "Tony" Hulman and Mary Fendrich Hulman
Tarkington reportedly used the troubled Fletcher family as the inspiration for his 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons, [1] which was set in a fictionalized version of Indianapolis and whose plot included a businessman who invested in early automotive technology. [10] Bruz's nickname (which rhymes with "buzz") was a diminutive of "brother". [2]
A'Lelia Bundles (1952– ), [12] TV producer, journalist, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker; Jared Carter (1939– ), poet, author of Work, for the Night Is Coming (1981), and winner of the Walt Whitman Award and the Poets' Prize.
William John Vukovich (/ ˈ v juː k ə v ɪ tʃ /; December 13, 1918 – May 30, 1955) was an American racing driver.He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500, plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races, and died while leading the 1955 Indianapolis 500.
Warren Wilbur Shaw (October 31, 1902 – October 30, 1954) was an American racing driver.The second three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 (1937, 1939 and 1940), he is also remembered for serving as president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death in 1954.
On December 20, 2020, American physician Susan Grace Moore (born October 2, 1968) died in Carmel, Indiana, from complications related to COVID-19. [1] In the weeks preceding her death, Moore, who was Black, had shared concerns that her symptoms were not being taken seriously by white medical professionals.
Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was an American businessman and serial killer.A resident of the Indianapolis suburb of Westfield, Indiana, Baumeister came under investigation for murdering over a dozen men in the early 1990s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars.