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Melvin James Wright Jr. (May 11, 1928 – May 16, 1983) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, pitching coach and scout. A native of Manila, Arkansas , who attended Ouachita Baptist University , Wright threw and batted right-handed and was measured during his playing days at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and 210 lb (95 kg).
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
Pages in category "Jazz musicians from New York (state)" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 477 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
New York City, New York, U.S. An American communist and ex-intelligence agent for the Soviet Union, Juliet Poyntz disappeared on 3 June 1937. A police investigation turned up no clues to her fate, and her belongings, all of her clothing and hand luggage in her room appeared to be untouched. [84] [85] 17 April 1938 Andrew Carnegie Whitfield: 28
Jon Stewart (born 1962) – writer, producer, political satirist, actor, television personality, comedian, and former host of The Daily Show (1999–2015); born in New York City, raised in New Jersey; Julia Stiles (born 1981) – actress; Ben Stiller (born 1965) – actor and comedian; Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) – politician and diplomat
S. Willis Rudy, College of the City of New York 1847–1947, 1949. James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City ...
Melvin Way was born on January 3, 1954, in Ruffin, South Carolina. [4] [3] As a child he lived both there and in Brooklyn. [5] [6] He moved to New York City permanently in the 1970s to attend R.C.A. Technical School in midtown Manhattan, where he learned the skills to work as a machinist. [5] [7] While there, he also played bass for local bands ...
Melvin Randolph "Randy" Primas, Jr. (August 31, 1949 – March 1, 2012) was an American politician who served as the first African-American Mayor of Camden, New Jersey from 1981 to 1990. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was succeeded by fellow African American Aaron A. Thomson.