- Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace (born Myron Leon Wallace on May 9, 1918) is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes" since its debut in 1968. During his career at "60 Minutes", he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Ayn Rand, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Malcolm X, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Jeffrey Wigand, … - Harold Ramis
I'm a Capricorn who enjoys listening to music, long walks on the beach, and watching the sunset. - Jim Nantz
Serving as lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' college basketball coverage for 12th consecutive season, Jim has called play-by-play on more network broadcasts of Final Four and championship game than any other announcer in history of Tournament. Jim also co-hosted Tournament and hosted Final Four for five years (1986-90) Jim earned 1998's National Sportscaster of the Year Award. - Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen was an American sports journalist on American television. His abrasive personality and tendency to speak his mind, often in erudite terms unusual for a sportscaster, made him, according to one poll, both the most-liked and most-hated television reporter in the country. - Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman (born Gerald Herman on July 10, 1931 in New York City) is an American composer/lyricist of the Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals "Hello, Dolly!", "Mame", and "La Cage aux Folles". - Lawrence S. Bacow
Lawrence S. Bacow was appointed the twelfth President of Tufts University on September 1, 2001. He received his S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his M.P.P. and Ph.D. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. - Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. - William S. Paley
William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois - October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in America. - Walter Annenberg
Walter H. Annenberg KBE (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published "The Daily Racing Form" and purchased "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in 1936. - Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (August 25 1918 – October 14 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed "Young People's Concerts" series, and his multiple compositions, including "West Side Story", … - Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 - 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. - Benjy Bronk
Benjy Bronk (born September 4, 1971) is a comedian, radio producer and head writer for the "The Howard Stern Show". Benjy is notoriously treated as an unwanted necessity on the show, though Howard has occasionally acknowledged his talent -- but often turns off Benjy's microphone in the belief that whenever Benjy is afforded the opportunity to speak, he refuses to do so in a serious manner. - Burt Baskin
Burt "Butch" Baskin founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with his partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins. He was born in San Diego, California, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Baskin. Baskin attended the California State University, East Bay and received an Associates of Arts degree, where he was a member of the Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau. Burt and Irv first met in 1941 when Burt began courting Irv’s sister Shirley Robbins, whom he married in 1942. - Mel Allen
Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions. In his later years, he gained a second professional life as the first host of "This Week in Baseball". - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - William Gaines
William Maxwell Gaines (March 1, 1922 - June 3, 1992) (more frequently referred to as Bill Gaines), was the publisher and co-editor of EC Comics, and publisher of "Mad" for over 40 years. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines was arguably the first publisher to oversee a line of comic books with sufficient artistic quality and interest to appeal to adults. Bill Gaines was the son of Max Gaines, … - Dick Schaap
Richard J. Schaap (September 27, 1934 - December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and the author or co-author of 33 books. He was known for his elegant prose and had a reputation as something of an intellectual; many columns consisted of broad sports essays, or "thought pieces." His autobiography, "Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines" not only recounted some of his adventures, … - Jack Warner
Jack Warner (J.L. for short) (August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978), born John Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish-Jewish family, was the president and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. - Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is the current President of The George Washington University. He has announced his retirement effective July 2007. He will be replaced by Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University. Trachtenberg also sits on the board of directors of Riggs Bank, where he has sparked controversey by opposing efforts to close the accounts of such Riggs clients as former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Trachtenberg is a native of Brooklyn, NY.
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