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Bloch Publishing
User:Arxiloxos/Bloch draft (done)

Mildred Grosberg Bellin
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Faison
Faison passed away in 2004 while playing basketball at the age of 36 from an undetected heart condition, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM); the Derrick Faison Foundation was later established to combat HCM and sudden cardiac death and to provide scholarships for underprivileged students.

HCM noted athletes
Noted athletes believed or suspected to have died from HCM include NFL players Thomas Herrion, Mitch Frerotte, Damien Nash, and Derrick Faison; NBA players Reggie Lewis and Jason Collier; NHL player Sergei Zholtok; baseball pitcher Joe Kennedy; long distance runner Ryan Shay, Loyola Marymount star Hank Gathers; and Kansas State football player Anthony Bates.

Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press is a leading publisher of architecture and design books, with over 500 titles on its backlist. It was founded in 1981 in New York. (It is not related to the Princeton University Press.) Since 1996, Princeton Architectural Press has been distributed in the Americas by Chronicle Books. In 1997, it became part of the German publishing group Springer Science+Business Media.

External Links Princeton Architectural Press website

Princeton Architectural Press page at Springer Science+Business Media Parent company website

"Building Books: PAPress" (interview with PAPress Publisher Kevin Lippert), Archinect, December 3, 2004.

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Stuart Margolin
Stuart Margolin updates and corrections (add DGA awards, etc.)
 * re leaving Salt Spring and move to Natchez

Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
Jeff Smith (cartoonist) repair article to provide sources and restore text after deletions of accurate materialhere
 * http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec08/cartoonexhibit_07-21.html
 * http://cartoons.osu.edu/?q=exhibits/jeff-smith-bone
 * http://wexarts.org/db/press/943_Jeff_Smith_%20Bone_press_release.pdf
 * http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2001/10/02/Arts/Comic.Man.Returns.To.Roots-109437.shtml
 * http://www.wizarduniverse.com/051408mccloudsmithinterview.html
 * http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2008/05/04/1_JEFF_SMITH.ART_ART_05-04-08_E1_5DA27CU.html
 * http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2940
 * http://www.boneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Bone_Teachers_Guide.pdf (page 6)

(born 1960)

He lives in Columbus, Ohio. Jeff Smith was born in 1960 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Smith has cited Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts as a very early influence on his understanding of comics He has also named Walt Kelly's Pogo, which he discovered at the age of nine when a classmate brought a collection of the comics to school, as his "biggest influence in writing comics." Smith began to create comics with the "Bone" characters as early as 1970, when he was about 10 years old.

He graduated in 1978 from Thomas Worthington High School in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, where he was a classmate of Jim Kammerud; in 1986 Smith and Kammerud would co-found Character Builders, an animation studio in Columbus where Smith worked for 6 years before leaving to devote himself to comics.

Smith attended The Ohio State University, and while there he created a comic strip called "Thorn" for the student newspaper, The Lantern, which included some of the characters who later featured in the Bone series.

Working with collaborators, Smith has also written prequel comics related to Bone, which have been collected in the volumes Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails and Rose


 * Lucy Shelton Caswell and David Filipi, Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond (columbus, O.: The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2008), ISBN 978-1-881390-46-6
 * Jeff Smith, The Art of Bone (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2007), ISBN 978-1-59307-441-8

Books about Warren Buffett
Numerous books have been written about Warren Buffett and his investment strategies. In October 2008, USA Today reported that there were at least 47 books in print with Buffett's name in the title. The article quoted the CEO of Borders Books, George Jones, as saying that the only other living persons named in as many book titles were U.S. presidents, major world political figures, and the Dalai Lama. Buffett said that his own personal favorite is a collection of his essays called The Essays of Warren Buffett, which he described as "a coherent rearrangement of ideas from my annual report letters" as edited by Larry Cunningham.

Best-selling or otherwise notable books about Buffett include the following:


 * Robert Hagstrom, The Warren Buffett Way. (As of 2008, the bestselling book about Buffett. )
 * Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. (Written with Buffett's cooperation. )
 * Mary Buffett and David Clark, Buffettology and four subsequent books. (Combined sales of more than 1.5 million copies. )
 * Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the Word's Greatest Investor.
 * John Train, The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'.
 * Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett. (The longest of the books about Buffett, with 330 chapters, 1,874 pages and 1,400 photos, weighing 10.2 pounds. )

Ron & Don Show

 * Comment: 1. Ratings are not the issue here, notability is. Per WP:Notability_(media), a purely local radio show is less likely to be notable than a regional or national one, but the question (as it is for all notability debates) is still "the presence or absence of reliable sources."  I'm currently on the fence about whether there is enough such independent coverage of Ron & Don to justify notability. I don't live in Seattle and I have no independent interest in or knowledge about this show.  However, these guys seem to have been around a long time and to have worked together in a lot of markets. In addition to the usual routine mentions you'd expect in the Seattle press, Google turns up some newspaper mentions of them getting hired and fired in those other markets. Some of this is at pay sites, so I didn't read those in detail, and it's not a huge number of hits, but there certainly are some.  There is a substantial blog post by the TV columnist for the New Orleans Times Picayune, about a remote broadcast these guys did in NOLA last year in connection with some Hurricane Katrina fundraising. It's not clear if they were in the print T-P or not.  ("Live from New Orleans: It's Seattle talk radio!" Times-Picayune blog post, April 10, 2008.)  Is this enough?  I'm not sure.
 * 2. However, the comment above by User:Notabilitypatrol may raise concern that this particular article is an exercise in WP:POINT. User:Notabilitypatrol created this article, but now he/she readily agrees it should be deleted?  Is the purpose to tell us about The Ron & Don Show, or to wage a battle against the much more notable (if lower rated) Luke Burbank?
 * 3. By the way, the Google search also turned up a number of uses of "Ron & Don Show" as a nickname for CBC's famous Hockey Night in Canada and its Coach's Corner segment, hosted by Don Cherry and Ron MacLean. But I imagine User:Emarsee knows more about this than I do, eh?[[Image:Smile.png|16px]]
 * --Arxiloxos (talk) 04:25, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Getting fired in Texas:
 * Ron and Don: gone and gone (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Oct 15, 2001) (pay site)
 * http://www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=62269&pt=archive

The show received attention after Hurricane Katrina for its fundraising efforts, in conjunction with the Seattle Seahawks and the Preservation Resource Center, including a live show from the front porch of a rebuilt New Orleans home.
 * In New Orleans for Katrina stories:

Forrest McDonald
In 1987 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) selected McDonald for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. His lecture was entitled "The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers." In a New York Times article after his selection, McDonald was quoted as saying that the federal government has "lost its capacity to protect people in life, liberty and property, to provide for the common defense, or to promote the general welfare." However, in interviews and in his Jefferson Lecture, McDonald opposed the idea of a new constitutional convention: in part because he felt that such a convention would become a "runaway" and a "catastrophe"; in part because he thought the inefficiency of the American government was a saving virtue limiting its capacity for oppression; and in part because he felt that in modern America it would be impossible to assemble a group as capable as the 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which took place in an era McDonald called "America's Golden Age, the likes of which we shall not see again."

McDonald's lecture was later described by the noted conservative historian George H. Nash as "a luminous introduction to the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers." However, McDonald faced criticism for not acknowledging the imperfection of slavery in the original constitutional framework. The New York Times pointedly noted that on the same day as McDonald's Jefferson Lecture, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall gave a speech criticizing "complacent belief" in the perfection of the Constitution, given the stain of slavery. The Times quoted McDonald's answer that at the time of the Constitutional Convention, "Slavery was a fact. It had simply not crossed many people's intellectual or moral horizons to question it," and his further comment, "The condition of the French peasants was far worse than that of the American slaves, and that was heaven compared to the Russian serf."

"The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers" was republished in the essay collection, Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes In a 1994 interview, McDonald noted that at the time he was selected for the Jefferson Lecture, he was on record in favor of abolishing the NEH, so he had refused to accept the $10,000 award that went with the honor. (In the same interview, asked about his political views, McDonald described himself simply as a "conservative"; when the interviewer followed up by asking, "How conservative?" McDonald responded, "Paleo.")

additional for Jesse Thorn article
Thorn is cited as a podcasting expert in various books on the subject.

extra text for New sincerity
"In the Russian context, the term new sincerity (novaia iskrennost) was originally used in the early 1990s by poet Dmitry Prigov and literary critic Mikhail Epstein, members of the unofficial Soviet artistic community. According to them, new sincerity in this context first appeared in literary and poetic texts around 1990, and was a backlash against the postmodern absurdity and ridicule that dominated the informal culture of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods marked by the crisis of the Soviet state.  Although the aesthetics of new sincerity implies avoidance of cynicism in relation to the subject matter, this does not mean that new sincerity lacks irony.  Quite the contrary, as a post-postmodern phenomenon it is acutely self-aware and self-ironic. However, this is a particular brand of irony, which is sympathetic and warm, and allows its authors to remain committed to the ideals that they discuss, while also being somewhat ironic about this commitment." (and in 259n.6 references [[Susan Sontag's comment that a good writer should "Be serious. By which I meant: never be cynical.  And which doesn't preclude being funny."  [Citing Sontag as quoted in Jenny Diski, "Seriously Uncool," London Review of Books 29, no.6 (March 22, 2007).] "Postconceptualism, or the New Sincerity, is an experiment in resuscitating "fallen," dead languages with a renewed pathos of love, sentimentalitym and enthusiasm.  (p.146)

"As early as the second half of the 1980s, Dmitry Prigov, the leader of the Moscow conceptualists, called for a change of direction toward a "new sincerity."

Yurchak connects "aesthetics of new sincerity" to art forms such "as reality television, Internet blogs, diary style chicklit literature, personal videos on You-Tube, neorealist cinema (for example, Danish Dogma, Aki Kaurismaki, Lars von Trier, Pedro Almadovar."

Jim Lange (cartoonist)

 * (not to be confused with Jim Lange)
 * was cartoonist for The Oklahoman for 58 years. Laid off (!) in October 2008 at age 82.  This used as notable example of decline of editorial cartooning in United States.
 * full obit at, also
 * Legacy.com obits
 * collection Lange published by OkPubCo in 2004, reviewed here
 * noted for his use of John Q. Public character aka Mr. Voter: (apparently this bill was not passed in House, it's not in OK statutes now)
 * drawing ended up on Challenger, retrieved after explosion, now at Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly Omniplex)
 * cofounder, president, and long-time member of Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
 * report re his response to Oklahoma City Bombing
 * identified with Oklahoman's overtly conservative agenda
 * his work is included in the "Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection" at the Toy and Action Figure Museum in Pauls Valley, OklahomaJim Lange biography at "Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection"
 * 17,000 cartoons (AP obit)

Bernard Knox

 * http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=2581
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=MwhIQV6Qe-sC
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5DF143FF93AA35750C0A964958260
 * http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2504
 * http://members.amphilsoc.org/webLinksPublic.php?MemberId=2656
 * http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/our_history
 * http://www.helleniccomserve.com/bernardknoxbio.html
 * http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/scw/knox.htm
 * http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/awards/nathan/previous.html#1977 (Nathan Award)
 * http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/nnp/fagles-iliad.html (comments re Knox's introduction and annotations to Fagles' Illiad)
 * see also http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/02/dirda061902.htm


 * http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/29/books/books-of-the-times-putting-in-a-word-for-homer-herodotus-plato-etc.html (review of Oldest Dead etc.)
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/books/29fagles.html?_r=1&scp=22&sq=%22bernard%20knox%22&st=cse Fagles obit, mentions relationship with Knox
 * http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/26/specials/leavitt-spender.html?scp=29&sq=%22bernard%20knox%22&st=cse Knox detected Leavitt plagiarism of Spender

Paul Steven Miller

 * Betty M. Adelson, Julie Rotta, The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation (Rutgers University Press, 2005), ISBN 9780813535487, pp.348ff.
 * Lewis Rice, "Signature Style", Pennsylvania Gazette, September 2004.
 * "UW law professor to help Obama make political appointments", Seattle Times, Feburary 18, 2009.
 * Joel Connelly, "UW Prof Paul Miller to White House", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 17, 2009. (suggests this is temp term position)
 * http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com/2009/01/kareem-dale-paul-steven-miller-to.html
 * "EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller Receives Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from CUNY", EEOC press release, May 23, 2003.
 * "Paul Steven Miller '86 has made it his job to combat workplace discrimination" (Harvard Law School profile)
 * http://www.law.washington.edu/directory/Profile.aspx?ID=148
 * http://www.law.washington.edu/directory/CV/Miller.pdf (his CV)
 * http://www.law.washington.edu/Multimedia/2008/Miller/transcript.aspx (installation as Scoop Jackson Professor)
 * Jake Ellison, "Professor fighting discrimination step by step", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 24, 2004. (very long profile, lots of info)
 * "Jennifer Mechem And Paul Miller", New York Times, May 25, 1997 (wedding article in Sunday NYT; article notable for not mentioning his height)
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/10/opinion/l-on-being-little-but-not-belittled-363489.html (letter to the editor December 10, 1989 re L.A. Law)
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010502104_pf.html (quick mention of him leaving EEOC after decade)
 * http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=740
 * http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/plan/par/2004/appendixes.html (brief bio)
 * http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/plan/par/2004/5-par-appendixes_html_627f35d5.jpg (PD headshot photo)
 * http://www.archive.org/stream/nominationhearin072194unit/nominationhearin072194unit_djvu.txt (transcript of his EEOC confirmation hearing, includes useful bio materials)
 * Category:People with dwarfism EEOC cat?

Barry Wood (football)

 * archrival of Albie Booth
 * "Football,". TIME, November 23, 1931.
 * http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/sgml/woodwb.html
 * http://id.im.wustl.edu/faculty/Former/Wood.html
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=UlLvwa0dVXgC&printsec=frontcover#PPA30,M1 Harvard Football pp.29-30
 * http://www.gocrimson.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9000&ATCLID=549112&SPID=3659&SPSID=57025
 * Bampton Lectures (1959)
 * His son (also William Barry Wood, but called William/Bill) is notable biology/biochem prof: http://www.ascb.org/files/0412profile.pdf, http://rapb.mspnet.org/index.cfm/showcase_member/user_id-2452?cat_id=1280, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1975,
 * Ted Husing gets in trouble for calling him "putrid": http://books.google.com/books?id=j6lMgCHHmIwC&printsec=frontcover#PPA39,M1
 * photo as doctor http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/itsfirst50yrs/sec1-4pic25.jpg (on Army website, is it PD?)
 * photo as doctor http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/itsfirst50yrs/sec1-4pic25.jpg (on Army website, is it PD?)

Barry Wood (singer)

 * Yet another Barry Wood!
 * Best known as the singer who preceded Sinatra on Your Hit Parade --see footnote her for more details about his career
 * I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
 * Barney Rapp
 * The Happy Gang
 * and (birth/death dates, but perhaps not WP:RS)
 * played with Buddy Rogers
 * http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8269041.html (Boston Globe column mentions him, birth name Louis Rapp, younger brother of bandleader Barney Rapp, attended Yale, and then played sax in 1931 with the Buddy Rogers band, etc.)
 * brief Time 1941 profile--says he was born in New Haven, Louis Rapaport (not Rapp), he was first to record "Any Bonds Today?"
 * Encyclopedia of old time radio and other pages; after Your Hit Parade, in 1943-44 Hosted The Million Dollar Band on NBC with Patsy Kelly; 1945-46 Johnny Presents (Philip Morris) on NBC.
 * see Snooky Lanson for a model singer stub: Categories: American male singers | Big band singers | American television personalities | American pop singers | Bell Records artists | Starday Records artists | 1909 births | 1970 deaths | United States pop singer stubs, people from New Haven?
 * We did it before (and we can do it again) {redir to Charles Tobias)
 * Became a TV producer: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939563/

Andree Layton Roaf
(her father)
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102001198_pf.html
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802185_pf.html (father)
 * http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=453 (father)
 * http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1237003.html?refid=gg_x_02 (sister)
 * his mother, Andree Layton Roaf, was the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court.
 * http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/jul/01/former-state-justice-roaf-dies/?subscriber/national
 * http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20090621/SPORTS/906210314
 * http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20090621/SPORTS/906210314

Friars Club of Beverly Hills
Friars Club of Beverly Hills nonprofit company assets were sold to profit company in 2004, which continued to operate as Friars Club of Beverly Hills for several years before losing trademark lawsuit with Friars Club of New York in 2007 http://www.pryorcashman.com/assets/attachments/151.pdf New York Times article: http://www.pryorcashman.com/assets/attachments/163.pdf Club changed its name to 9900 Club but evidently closed as of June 2008, and the landmark building designed by Sidney Eisenshtat was on the market: http://community.myfoxla.com/blogs/mitch_waldow/2008/06/27/Farewell_to_the_Friars http://www.kathleensilver.com/upload/silver/9900SantaMonicaBlvd_57/materials/Brochure_9900_Santa_Monica_Blvd_One_Page%5B1%5D.pdf

¿Quién diablos es Juliette?
This documentary about Juliet (Yuliet) Ortega has won a slew of awards,
 * has been reviewed in significant places,
 * http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9803E2D7113BF932A35757C0A96E958260
 * http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/10/02/DD19466.DTL
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=0qiQLs-6SocC&printsec=frontcover#PPA363,M1
 * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126627/externalreviews has links to more reviews

(Posted by other editors)
 * and is even mentioned in a Frommer's travel guide as a notable film about the dynamics between Cubans and Cuban-Americans.

Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California)

 * history: Amy Klein, "The Sinai Century, ''Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, May 18, 2006.
 * link to Meir Finkelstein
 * link to David Wolpe
 * link to Sherre Hirsch and David Lieber
 * link re current building to Sidney Eisenshtat
 * link to Wilshire_Boulevard
 * link to Craig Taubman & Friday Night Live (add to disamb. page?)
 * in June 2006 Rick Warren spoke at Friday Night Live--his first appearance in a synagogue? http://www.jewishjournal.com/rob_eshman/article/jesus_man_has_a_plan_20060623/ and http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/06/06/to-invigorate-the-synagogue-bring-the-pastor/
 * disambiguate at Temple Sinai
 * book Florie Brizel, Sinai Temple: A Centennial History, 1906-2006 (Los Angeles, Sinai Temple, 2006) ISBN 978-0979285509
 * Commentary on Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
 * List_of_rabbis
 * Israel Chodos wrote Count Your Blessings (noted positive thinking book)
 * Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael, ''The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996), ISBN 0313288569, 9780313288562, pp. 47-48, excerpt available at Google Books
 * location of Kirk Douglas's "second bar mitzvah"
 * re Jimmy Delshad and the Persian influx http://www.wmagazine.com/society/2009/07/persian_beverly_hills?currentPage=4

Stephen S. Wise Temple
Stephen S. Wise Temple was started in 1964 by Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin and 35 families. In the years since, it has grown to what you see today, a progressive Synagogue that blends Jewish values, ethics, and traditions into a house of worship and community. We are a Reform congregation and are members of the Union for Reform Judaism  (URJ), the umbrella organization for the Reform movement. Now with over 3,000 member families, six rabbis, two cantors, four Schools on three campuses, we are among the largest Reform synagogues in the country."The Road to Today" at We had to 'daylight' the area [lower the mountain's height] so we took down the mountain 50 feet. We had no place for the dirt. So I invited the University of Judaism, which then was on Sunset Boulevard, to buy the property next door. And we pushed a million cubic yards of dirt onto their hole to make theirs a level piece of property.
 * Stephen Samuel Wise
 * Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School
 * Milken Community High School
 * Zeldin (surname)
 * John Dart, " Stephen S. Wise Temple: Still Growing at Age 25: 2,800 Families Make Hilltop Synagogue in Bel-Air the Second Largest in U.S.", Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1989.
 * Isaiah Zeldin, 1st Dean, brief biography at HUC website
 * Stephen S. Wise Temple official website
 * David Finnigan, "Q & A With Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, February 12, 2004
 * http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59541413.html?dids=59541413:59541413&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+29%2C+1994&author=JOHN+DART&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=RELIGION+JOHN+DART+Reform+Jewish+High+School+Carves+Niche+in+City+on+a+Hill&pqatl=google (re Milken)
 * Sharon Schatz Rosenthal, "Educator Combines Two Passions in Life", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, June 26, 2003.
 * http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99228273.html?dids=99228273:99228273&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+19%2C+1990&author=Tom+Tugend&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=AN+ALL-PURPOSE+TEMPLE&pqatl=google
 * http://www.forward.com/articles/13909/ ("But of course, this is L.A., where everything exists on a larger-than-life scale (think behemoth Hollywood studios and the sprawling geography that facilitated their rise). Another Reform congregation, Stephen S. Wise Temple, claims 3,000 family units, and its hilltop campus includes a swimming pool and two social halls.")
 * http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99156938.html?dids=99156938:99156938&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+24%2C+1989&author=DAVID+GEFFEN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=REFORM+TEMPLE+GOES+AGAINST+THE+ASSIMILATIONIST+STREAM&pqatl=google
 * Jon D. Markman, "Culture Shock Many Object to the Growing Sprawl of Institutions Atop Sepulveda Pass", Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1995.
 * http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/nathan-lam (Nathan Lam, cantor)
 * http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-29/news/mn-458_1_private-school (some content re elem. school)
 * http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-06/entertainment/ca-1813_1_new-works-film-composers-commissioned (Walter Scharf) debuts new work there in 1989, article notes Wise program to commission new works per Cantor Lam)
 * Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael, The American synagogue: a historical dictionary and sourcebook excerpt available at Google Books
 * To the golden cities: pursuing the American Jewish dream in Miami and L.A. By Deborah Dash Moore
 * (cite to Architectural Record article about building 1972
 * 
 * 
 * (mention of Metuka Benjamin and the development of the Reform Jewish day school]
 * 
 * John Dart, "Rabbi Leads Grand Temple in Clash With Reform Officials", Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1995. (dispute with HUAC)
 * (Howard Berman calls it 2d largest in 1995 & 2000 Congressional speech honoring Zeldin]

Tulsa
add architect info (Blaine Imel & Frank Wallace) to Oral Roberts University

Temple Israel
work from these sources:

Temple Israel Tulsa, Oklahoma (DONE) Temple Israel is the only Reform Jewish temple in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founded in 1914, it was originally located in a now-abandoned but still-standing building at 14th & Cheyenne and now occupies a distinctive building designed by famed synagogue architect Percival Goodman. The building's front is dominated by massive twin pillars containing the Ten Commandments. Located on 22nd Place just south of the Utica Square Shopping Center, Temple Israel has a membership of approximately 500 family units and is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism.
 * Official website for Temple Israel of Tulsa
 * Judith Wall, "Holidays Mean Holy Days for Most Oklahomans: A Tour of Houses of Worship," Oklahoma Today, Winter 1979, pp.8-9, 11.

Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
User:Arxiloxos/Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma) (draft)
 * Originally Tulsa High School; history at http://www.tulsacentralalumni.org/central.htm (Only white high school in Tulsa until 1939; built 1906, accredited 1913, moved to 6th & Cincinnati 1916, peak enrollment of 5000 in 1938; Webster and Will Rogers opened 1939. Lack of access to outdoor athletic facilities and parking expense (!) led to decision to move, and new building opened on 47 acres at 31st and West Edison (is that in Osage County?) in 1976.
 * Now a fine arts magnet school. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=80&articleid=631704&archive=yes
 * Official website http://www.tulsaschools.org/schools/central/
 * old building is now the Public Service Company of Oklahoma building, award winning renovation (PSO is sub of American Electric Power. http://www.psoklahoma.com/About/  Note: This building not to be confused with a different, older PSO building @ 6th & Main listed List of RHPs in OK
 * John Starks (basketball), Billy Tubbs; Eddie Sutton coached there 1962-67; gene therapy pioneer William French Anderson; http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=L092301130&archive=yes
 * More notable alums http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?subjectid=42&articleid=266574&archive=yes http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=L041899035&archive=yes http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=L111200106&archive=yes
 * Rocky Frisco, J.J. Cale?, Tommy Hudspeth (coach), Gen James Robinson Risner, CIA director R. James Woolsey, Jr., Leroy McGuirk, Daniel J. Boorstin
 * Medal of honor winner Albert E. Schwab http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/itemsofinterest/centennial/centennial_storypage.asp?ID=070323_1_A9_Ayoun66636

*She is the subject of a story in a book by former Tulsa news reporter, Larry Thomlinson. Larry Thomlinson, Life, Death and Other Dysfunctions, ISBN 9781430308928. Reviewed here: http://tulsatvmemories.com/chewldod.html)
 * Isabelle Ronan teacher of Paul Harvey, Tony Randall, Mary Stuart, Danny Dark,
 * Lou Ann Ruark, "Story Teller: Tulsa Woman's Readings, Now Stilled, Linger in Memories", Tulsa World, November 2, 1997 ("The Central High School of that era was known for its superior theater and drama department, a different discipline from "speech" connected with debate or oratory. The reason: A gifted and inspired teacher named Isabelle Ronan, who had a knack for recognizing students with theatrical talent and desire to perform. She was the MISS Ronan to students, other teachers and administrative staff as well.")
 * Joe Howard, "Paul Harvey: A Legend Looks Back", Radio Ink, November 2, 2006. (Paul Harvey interview)
 * Marc Fisher, "A Lifetime on the Radio", ''American Journalism Review, October 1998. (Harvey--misspells her name)
 * Rick Kogan, "Good days for Paul Harvey", Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2002.
 * Paul Harvey, "Return to Hometown Lets Harvey Lay Ghosts to Rest", transcript of "Tulsa Travelog" from Harvey's radio program as reprinted in Tulsa World, March 20, 1994. (Harvey mentioned her in radio show about revisiting Tulsa)
 * Thomas Conner, "Randall's dreams of acting started in Tulsa", Tulsa World, May 19, 2004. (Tony Randall)
 * Phil Sweetland, "Danny Dark, voice of StarKist tuna and others; 65", San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3, 2004.
 * "Soap star and former Tulsan Mary Stuart dies", ''Tulsa World, March 2, 2002 (Mary Stuart: article mentions Central '44 but doesn't name Ronan)
 * "Mary Stuart, 76, a Star In 2 Soap Operas, Is Dead", New York Times, March 3, 2002. (mentions Tulsa but not Central or Ronan)
 * James D. Watts Jr., "Pitter Patter", Tulsa World, October 25, 2002 (theatrical actor/director/conductor Jack Eddleman)
 * Frank Morrow, co-producer of long-running public affairs/public access program Alternative Views
 * "Central High alumni; Miss Isabelle Ronan, teacher",, at Tulsa TV Memories is dedicated to memories of Isabelle Ronan; includes reminiscences from Frank Morrow, others.


 * Adah Robinson:
 * Dianna Everett, "Robinson, Adah Matilda (1882-1962)" at Oklahoma Historical Society Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
 * Art Deco Buildings in Tulsa: Adah Robinson Residence at Tulsa Preservation Commission website (Goff designed her house, w/amusing anecdote)
 * Gene Curtis, "Dispute rages over church's designer", Tulsa World, December 25, 2006.


 * 1927 pipe organ: Danna Sue Walker, "Piping up", Tulsa World, February 14, 2003.

Charlie Mitchell (footballer)

 * not to confused with Charlie Mitchell
 * sources will take some digging here!
 * Scottish. Played in NASL for Rochester Lancers, New York Cosmos, Team Hawaii, Tulsa Roughnecks: Rochester 1970-1975, New York 1976, Team Hawaii 1977, Tulsa 1978, Toronto 1979; here is copy of bio page from a Roughnecks program http://tulsatvmemories.com/imag1999/mitchell.jpg, at http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb032606.html
 * http://national.soccerhall.org/Election%20Process/2007/Veteran_Bios.htm
 * coached Team Hawaii 1977, Tulsa Roughnecks 1980-1981 http://national.soccerhall.org/history/NASL_AllTimeCoachesRegistry.htm
 * replaced July 1981 by Terry Hennessey, according to Sports Illustrated due to dissatisfaction with low-scoring offense "A Roundup Of The Week June 29-July 5", Sports Illustrated, July 13, 1981.
 * later coached soccer for local programs http://www.gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/2956/youth-soccer-provides-fun-fitness-opportunity and at Northeastern State University (resigned 2005)
 * popular restaurants

All Souls Unitarian Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Cats: Unitarian Universalist churches, Churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma As of February 2009, appears to be the largest single physical UU congregation in the world (behind only Church of the Larger Fellowship, which is a virtual online/remote congregation, and the 25 churches of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines, and 3rd largest in the world overall. 1,590 Unitarian-Universalists, which includes the largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in the world.
 * Unitarian Universalism
 * Carlton Pearson
 * All Souls Church (dab page)
 * Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * Anatole Browde, Faith Under Siege: A History of Unitarian Theology (iUniverse, 2009), ISBN 9781440111631, p. 131, p. 171 (describes All Souls as one of the "most prominent" of the urban Unitarian churches that became "powerful voices of liberal religion in their communities and in the nation")
 * Marlin Lavanhar, "Tulsa, A Divinely Inspired City" in Davis D. Joyce and Fred R. Harris, eds., Alternative Oklahoma: contrarian views of the Sooner State (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), ISBN 9780806138190, pp. 211ff. (very detailed history of All Souls)\
 * "All Souls' worldly leader"By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer Published: 9/6/2003 ]
 * Hope Holway, History of All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa: 1921-1971 (1971) (no preview available)
 * Univision, http://www.uua.org/leaders/leaderslibrary/congregationalpolity/47011.shtml
 * Reverend X (they have their own publishing co?
 * Philip Bartlett Smith, Eric Thurman, A billion bootstraps: microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007) ISBN 9780071489973
 * church website
 * 
 * http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-09-tulsa-zoo-genesis_x.htm (Zoo creationism controversy, Lavanhar quoted)
 * http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/madison.com/html/archive_files/wsj/2003/12/26/0312250065.php(Wisconsin church is biggest--notes All Souls to fourth fell after "purging of the rolls")
 * quoted re death of Fern Holland http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=040320_Ne_a1_frien
 * John Wolf sometimes noted as critic of Oral Roberts short bio
 * an older chronology (mirror of old site?), includes list of ministers
 * "Minister to Enter `Semi-Retirement'" By Carolyn Jenkins Published: 3/25/1995
 * A Free Spirit // The Rev. John Wolf Has the Most Liberal Pulpit in Town By Susan Everly-Douze Published: 12/3/1989
 * increasing size 1990

Pioneer Woman (blog) & Ree Drummond

 * thepioneerwoman.com/
 * Lillie-Beth Brinkman, "Oklahoma's Pioneer Woman blog competes for national honors", The Oklahoman, March 16, 2009.
 * Lewis Wallace, "SXSW: Pioneer Woman Nabs Top Honors at 2009 Bloggies", Wired, March 16, 2009.
 * Rene Lynch, "The Pioneer Woman, an Internet and publishing sensation", Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2009.
 * Claire Cain Miller, "Woman to Woman, Online", New York Times, August 14, 2008
 * Natalie Mikles, "She is 'Woman': Ree Drummond's view of Osage ranch life has taken the blogosphere by storm", Tulsa World, May 3, 2009.
 * Natalie Mikles, "'Pioneer Woman' Ree Drummond to sign new cookbook Tuesday in Tulsa", Tulsa World, October 26, 2009.
 * Natalie Mikles, "The Pioneer Woman's Final Frontier: The blog diva releases her first cookbook", Tulsa World, October 27, 2009.
 * Zosia Bielski, "Rural blogs harvest truckloads of urban fans", The Globe and Mail, October 16, 2009.
 * Aaron Ricadela, "Thanks to Blogs, a Bigger Menu for Food Criticism", Business Week, August 21, 2009.

Museum of Western Art

 * (formerly the Cowboy Artists of America Museum) in Kerrville, Texas.
 * http://www.museumofwesternart.org/history.asp
 * Kerrville, Texas
 * List of museums in Texas
 * "What was once the Cowboy Artists of America Museum, then the National Center for American Western Art, is now the Museum of Western Art. It is a subtle change in titles, but a significant change in mission." http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00154,0FCEBF5D52B4A366.html [pay site]
 * "Old Hertzberg museum could go from clowns to cowboys", San Antonio Express-News, August 23, 2007: "About half of the board and the entire two-member staff of the National Western Art Foundation came from a Kerrville institution that used to be called the Cowboy Artists of America Museum. When some members of the Kerrville institution split and came to San Antonio to start a similar facility, the one-time colleagues sued each other. Officials with the Kerrville attraction, now known as the Museum of Western Art, mediated a settlement with the National Western Art Foundation leadership, according to Duty, who wouldn't disclose many of the details."
 * Briscoe Western Art Museum

Ben Graf Henneke

 * "Ex-TU president gave much to university", Tulsa World, November 15, 2009.
 * "Ben Henneke: A gentleman and a scholar", Tulsa World, November 17, 2009. ("No one person is more closely associated with the University of Tulsa — or more honorably so — than Ben Graf Henneke.")
 * "Former President Henneke Dies", KWGS, November 14, 2009.
 * Henneke was inducted as an alumni member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1991.
 * Founder of KWGS
 * http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/yrbks/1940-1949/1948/8.pdf
 * President Emeritus Ben Henneke, 1914-2009 at University of Tulsa website (retrieved November 16, 2009).
 * The radio announcer's handbook (Rinehart, 1948)
 * reportedly the first radio announcing textbook?
 * Laura Keene: a biography (Council Oak Books, 1990), ISBN 9780933031319
 * review: Lesley Ferris, "Reviewed work(s): Laura Keene: Actress, Innovator and Impressario by Ben Graf Henneke, etc. Theatre Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, Colonial/Postcolonial Theatre (Oct., 1994), pp. 432-434.
 * reviews at Amazon.com
 * He wrote the "Hurricane Fight Song" (or at least the lyrics):
 * http://www.hfnet.org/
 * "TU Tradition – Small School Atmosphere, Big Time Academics", GTR Newspapers, August 24, 2006.
 * http://www.tulsahurricane.com/downloads/tuls-fight-song.html (add this link to Tulsa Golden Hurricane
 * "Hurricane Roar", The University of Tulsa Magazine (Homecoming 2008), p. 14 (he won a 1932 contest, prize was $25; then a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, he said the initial portion of the song was was inspired by the sound of the "back and forth motion" of his mother's Hoover vacuum cleaner. Title was "Hurricane Spirit Song"0)
 * Ben Graf Henneke, “Birthday Bash” (written for his 90th Birthday Celebration, May 19, 2004.

John Duncan Forsyth

 * Judy Randle, "Architect pens book celebrating his mentor, John Duncan Forsyth", Tulsa World, January 1, 2007.
 * born 1887 in Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland
 * "studied briefly" at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris


 * John Brooks Walton, The Architecture of John Duncan Forsyth (JBW Publications, 2007), ISBN 0975979930, ISBN 9780975979938
 * John Duncan Forsyth at Price Tower Arts Center website (retrieved July 29, 2009).
 * born in 1886 in Florence, Italy
 * educated at Edinburgh College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France
 * died in 1963 (in Tulsa?)


 * E. W. Marland Mansion in Ponca City
 * John Duncan Forsyth Room at E. W. Marland Mansion official website:
 * QUOTE: Located in the southwest corner of the artist studio, this room is a tribute to the Master Architect of the Marland Estate, John Duncan Forsyth. In 1925, Forsyth learned that E. W. Marland was going to build a mansion that would reflect his status as an oil baron, so he pursued Marland and convinced the oilman to hire him. Thus began a rich architectural legacy left by Forsyth in Ponca City.
 * Although he designed many buildings during his career, Forsyth was the most proud of his design of the mansion. Marland gave him carte blanche to create the plans for the "Palace on the Prairie." Forsyth felt very fortunate to hire talented artists to hand paint the ceilings, and he loved being afforded the luxury of using decorative wrought iron and original stone carvings.
 * In addition to the mansion, Forsyth designed the Artist Studio, the gatehouse, the chauffeur's cottage, the stables, and the administrative building on the Marland Estate. Marland also commissioned him to build a group of Southwest adobe buildings in downtown Ponca City and the boardroom at Marland Oil Company. In the mid-1930's, when Marland was governor, Forsyth designed the state office building in Oklahoma City.
 * A very popular architect throughout northern Oklahoma, he designed many homes and business buildings in Tulsa and Ponca City, and is also known for the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma.ENDQUOTE


 * Pensacola Dam at Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mayes County, Oklahoma
 * Pensacola Dam at at Oklahoma National Register Properties, Oklahoma Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office website
 * world's longest multiple arch dam
 * http://www.lcra.org/newsletter/currents/may07/ask_lcra.html (vs. Buchanan Dam in Texas
 * Donald C. Jackson, Great American Bridges and Dams: A National Trust Guide (John Wiley and Sons, 1988) ISBN 0471143855, ISBN 9780471143857, p.254 excerpt available at Google Books
 * Historical Atlas of Oklahomaexcerpt available at Google Books


 * Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma (original building, now heavily modified
 * Jane Addams Hall at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, part of the Oklahoma College for Women Historic District (WPA buildings designed by different prominent Okla. architects) More about this at USAO website here, here and background about USAO at Okla Encyclopedia here
 * Jim Gabbert, "5 Buildings by John Duncan Forsyth", Preservation Oklahoma News, July 2006, p.5.
 * Also mentions: Pensacola Dam, Marland Mansion, Lamerton House in Enid
 * Lamerton House at Oklahoma National Register Properties, Oklahoma Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office website
 * moved to US in 1908, trained with various architects including John Russell Pope, fought in WW1 with Royal British Flying Corps, moved to Tulsa 1921; left to fight in WW2 with US Navy Seabees, went to California, returned to Tulsa in 1950s, remained in Tulsa til death in 1963


 * "The Architecture of Ottawa's Central Union Station" at Heritage Ottawa website
 * he was one of the large team of architects who worked on Central Union Station (now the Government Conference Centre in Ottawa

Tulsa Foundation for Architecture website
 * John Duncan Forsyth at Tulsa Foundation for Architecture website
 * John Duncan Forsyth Collection at
 * Webster High School (J. D. Forsyth, W. Wolaver, and R. Kerr, Associated Architects; M. Atkinson, Supervising Architect)


 * Southern Hills Country Club (J.D. Forsyth and Donald McCormick, associate architects)
 * designed in "European country house style" per Charles Faudree, Jenifer Jordan, M. J. Van Deventer, Charles Faudree Interiors (Gibbs Smith, 2008), ISBN 1423602099, ISBN 9781423602095

excerpt available at Google Books
 * John Duncan Forsyth Residence at Tulsa Preservation Commission website
 * Streamline Moderne, built 1937, restored 1985 per Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America's Heartland, (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), ISBN 0806138246, ISBN 9780806138244 (excerpt available at Google Books).
 * another picture [here http://www.tulsalibrary.org/research/artdeco/forsyth.php]


 * Bartlesville High School (originally College High School)
 * see Price Tower bio
 * "Facility History: The Original Campus" at Bartlesville High School official website
 * Bret A. Carter, Kay County's Historic Architecture (Arcadia Publishing, 2007), ISBN 0738551244, ISBN 9780738551241, excerpts available at Google Books
 * He designed a number of notable buildings in Ponca City per above source,
 * also Hutchins Memorial Auditorium


 * Blair Mansion, Tulsa
 * Kirby Lee Davis, "These Walls: The Blair Mansion in Tulsa", The Journal Record, April 25, 2008.
 * Brian Barber, "Famed Blair estate to be purchased", Tulsa World, March 11, 2008 (this article doesn't mention Forsyth)
 * Riverside Historic District at Tulsa Preservation Commission website (retrieved October 30, 2009).

New Sincerity
For New Sincerity

User:Arxiloxos/New sincerity (draft)

Re critical "new sincerity"--see Collins, Jim. “Genericity in the 90s: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity.” Film Theory Goes to the Movies Eds. Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins. New York: Routledge, 1993. 242-63. ISBN 0415905761, ISBN 9780415905763 in which contrasts films that treat genre conventions with "eclectic irony" and those that treat them seriously, with "new sincerity"; he describes (p. 245)

the 'new sincerity' of films like Field of Dreams (1989), Dances With Wolves (1990), and Hook (1991), all of which depend not on hybridization, but on an "ethnographic" rewriting of the classic genre film that serves as their inspiration, all attempting, using one strategy or another, to recover a lost "purity," which apparently pre-existed even the Golden Age of film genre.

Katy Henriksen, Drunk Bunnies, The New Sincerity, Flarf: How Blogs are Transforming Poetry," EconoCulture, January 23, 2007 -- describes Anthony Robinson, Andrew Mister, Reb Livingston, Joseph Massey as participants in poetry movement described by Massey as "a ‘new sincerity’ brewing in American poetry -- a contrast to the cold, irony-laden poetry dominating the journals and magazines and new books of poetry."

Sidney Eisenshtat
User:Arxiloxos/Sidney Eisenshtat (draft)

Sidney Eisenshtat: Samuel D. Gruber, "Sidney Eisenshtat, 90, Leading Synagogue Architect", Forward, Apr 01, 2005  US-architect-stub

Aller Retour New York
User:Arxiloxos/Aller Retour New York by Henry Miller use Black Spring (novel) as model for stub)
 * Margo Mifflin, Book Capsule Review, Entertainment Weekly, January 17, 1992. ("Out of print since 1945, this is a central document of Miller's picaresque life.")
 * Book reprinted by New Directions in 1992.'
 * http://www.amazon.com/Aller-Retour-Revived-Modern-Classics/dp/0811212262/
 * link to Alfred Perles
 * "Paperbacks: Sea Stories: New Writing from the National Maritime Museum; Wish Her Safe at Home; Aller Retour New York, By Henry Miller; The Private Lives of the Impressionists; Nobody's Home, By Dubravka Ugresic, The Independent on Sunday, 14 October 2007.
 * Shaun O'Connell, Remarkable, Unspeakable New York: A Literary History (1997) pp.219-220

Angie Debo
User:Arxiloxos/Angie Debo (draft)

Willard Stone
Willard Stone
 * User:Arxiloxos/Willard Stone (draft)


 * http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/ST059.html
 * Locust Grove, Oklahoma
 * http://www.amazon.com/Willard-Stone-Margaret-Wheatley-Hamilton/dp/0963918303
 * http://www.willardstonemuseum.com/
 * http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/Tours/Garden_Exhibit6/stone.html
 * 2009 exhibit at Gilcrease Museum http://eventful.com/tulsa/events/willard-stone-storyteller-wood-/E0-001-016775541-9
 * Thomas Gilcrease mentions him
 * James D. Watts, Jr., "'Storyteller in Wood' opens at Gilcrease," Tulsa World, February 21, 2009.

Sam Cohn
ALT1: ... that New York talent agent Sam Cohn was called both "the first superagent of the modern age" and "the most difficult man in the business to get on the phone"?


 * Pat Saperstein and Michael Fleming, "Legendary agent Sam Cohn dies", Variety, May 6, 2009.


 * Mike Barnes, "Legendary agent Sam Cohn dies", ''Hollywood Reporter, May 6, 2009.


 * "Ephron, Aykroyd Catch Cohn on Film", New York Magazine, Feb 17, 1992 (character Arnold Moss, based on Cohn, played by Dan Aykroyd in This is My Life (film) directed by Nora Ephron)

A lengthy 1982 profile by Mark Singer in The New Yorker described Cohn's career and personality in detail. Cohn was known for lunching at New York's Russian Tea Room almost every day; his habit of eating paper; and his strong preference for New York over Los Angeles, unusual among major motion picture agents. Cohn was also famously difficult to reach on the phone: his obituaries in the major entertainment trade papers both mentioned that he was "the most difficult man in the business to get on the phone", and in his New Yorker profile, Singer repeated an industry joke that Cohn's tombstone would read, "Here lies Sam Cohn.  He'll get back to you."

The character Arnold Moss, a paper-eating agent based on Cohn, was created by Nora Ephron and portrayed by Dan Aykroyd in Ephron's 1992 film This Is My Life

Cohn's client list and influence waned in later years, and in 1999 he left his position as the head of ICM's New York office." He  remained a member of ICM's board of directors in 2005, and continued to work at ICM until retiring in early 2009.  (The Variety article reporting his retirement drily noted, "Hanging onto his trademark ways to the very end, Cohn did not return a call from Daily Variety for comment." )

Helmerich Award
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is a literary award given by the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is awarded annually to an "internationally acclaimed" author who has "written a distinguished body of work and made a major contribution to the field of literature and letters."

History of the award
First awarded in 1985 with a cash prize of US$5,000 in 1985, the award now consists of a $40,000 cash prize and an engraved crystal book. To date, all of the award recipients have been English-language writers.

The award is named after Peggy V. Helmerich, a prominent Tulsa philanthropist and library activist, and the wife of Tulsa oilman Walter Helmerich III. Before her marriage, under the stage name Peggy Dow, she had been a motion picture actress, best known for playing the role of "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey opposite James Stewart, ; she also starred in the 1951 film Bright Victory.

The first honoree, in 1985, was writer and longtime Saturday Review of Literature editor Norman Cousins, and the theme of the evening was “The Salutary Aspects of Laughter.”

In 1997, historian John Hope Franklin became the first (and so far only) native Oklahoman to receive the award. While in Tulsa to accept the award, Franklin made several appearances to speak about his childhood experiences with racial segregation as well as his father's experiences as a lawyer in the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.

In 2004 Arthur Miller was initially announced as the honoree, but he subsequently declined the award when illness prevented him from attending the award ceremony. David McCullough, the 1995 winner, replaced Miller as the featured speaker at the December 2004 award dinner. McCullough subsequently returned his honorarium to the library. Miller died in February 2005, In 2005, the initial honoree was again unable to accept due to illness: Oklahoma native Tony Hillerman was the initial selection, but was later replaced by John Grisham. Reporting on Grisham's selection as Hillerman's replacement, a Virginia newspaper called the Helmerich Award the "[b]est literary award you've never heard of."

The 2009 honoree is Australian journalist and author Geraldine Brooks.

List of Helmerich Award winners
A complete list of Helmerich Award winners follows.

1985  Norman Cousins 1986  Larry McMurtry 1987  John Updike 1988  Toni Morrison 1989  Saul Bellow 1990  John le Carré 1991  Eudora Welty 1992  Norman Mailer 1993  Peter Matthiessen 1994  Ray Bradbury 1995  David McCullough 1996  Neil Simon 1997  John Hope Franklin 1998  E. L. Doctorow 1999  Margaret Atwood 2000  William Manchester 2001  William Kennedy 2002  Joyce Carol Oates 2003  Shelby Foote 2004  not awarded 2005  John Grisham 2006  Mark Helprin 2007  Thomas Keneally 2008  Michael Chabon 2009  Geraldine Brooks

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============ Helmerich Award aka Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
 * http://www.helmerichaward.org/
 * http://www.helmerichaward.org/winners.php winner list, quite impressive
 * http://www.helmerichaward.org/history.php prize now $40,000!
 * lots of news coverage when John Hope Franklin won
 * profile of Peggy Helmerich at Oklahoma Library Legends: Peggy Helmerich
 * IMDb bio of Peggy Dow (born Peggy Josephine Varnadow, starred in Harvey (film) and Bright Victory'', retired to marry Walt Helmerich)
 * "Arthur Miller rewarded for distinctive work", AP in USA Today, April 26, 2004.
 * "Helmerich Family Leaves Fascinating Legacy", GTR Newspapers, July 6, 2007.
 * http://www.library.okstate.edu/about/awards/bennett/helmerich.htm
 * She went to Northwestern Louisiana, class of 1948

Literary awards
The Tulsa Library Trust, a privately-funded public foundation, supports the Tulsa City-County Library. Among other activities it gives out two notable literary awards.

Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award has been awarded annually since 1985 to an "internationally acclaimed" author who has "written a distinguished body of work and made a major contribution to the field of literature and letters." The Helmerich Award consists of a US$40,000 cash prize and an engraved crystal book.

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature
The Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature has been awarded since 1991 to "nationally acclaimed authors who have made a significant contribution to the field of literature for children and young adults." The award consists of a $7,500 cash prize and an an engraved crystal book.

Past winners of the Zarrow award have been: Christopher Paul Curtis (2009), Louis Sachar (2008), Kate DiCamillo (2007), Sharon Creech (2006), Avi (2005), Susan Cooper (2004), Russell Freedman (2003), Richard Peck (2002), E.L. Konigsburg (2001), Jerry Spinelli (2000), Jane Yolen (1999), Cynthia Voigt (1998), Gary Paulsen (1997), Walter Dean Myers (1996), Lois Lowry (1994), Katherine Paterson (1993), Madeleine L’Engle (1992) and S.E. Hinton (1991).

Tulsa Tribune
Category:Defunct newspapers of the United States Category:Newspapers published in Oklahoma Category:History of Tulsa, Oklahoma Category:Publications established in 1919 Category:Publications disestablished in 1992
 * http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TU016.html
 * http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/WLHBA/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=9278&hdl=&np=&adv=yes&ln=Jones&fn=Richard&q=&y1=&y2=&ci=&co=&mhd=&shd=
 * http://www.lhaasdav.com/tulsademocrat/index.html
 * bio of Richard Lloyd Jones
 * http://www.ananews.com/anagrams/1966/6611.pdf (bio of RL Jones Jr)
 * Jones family in Tulsa (no mention of Unitarianism or All Souls here)http://www.gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/1876/jones-family-published-the-tulsa-tribune
 * http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=2344
 * 
 * AP obit for Jenkin Lloyd Jones Jr.
 * http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=519&Itemid=2
 * riots
 * dealing with legacy of Tulsa race riot
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/29/obituaries/richard-jones-jr-72-chief-of-tulsa-tribune.html
 * market survey
 * 1992 shutdown http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-02/news/mn-5721_1_final-edition

Paul Miller (journalist)

 * was head of Gannett Corporation and AP
 * Carolyn G. Hanneman, "Miller, Paul (1906-1991)" at at Oklahoma Historical Society Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (retrieved September 30, 2009).
 * "Paul Miller (1906-1991): A Biographical Sketch" at The Paul Miller Image Collection, Oklahoma State University Libraries (retrieved September 30, 2009).
 * Dennis Hevesi, "Paul Miller, 84, Former Chairman Of Gannett and the A.P., Is Dead", New York Times, August 23, 1991.
 * "A Brief Company History" at Gannett Corporation official website, May 2009 (retrieved September 30, 2009).
 * Watson Sims, "Newspapers Have Met Their Enemy Within", Nieman Reports (Winter 2006) at Nieman Foundation for Journalism website (retrieved September 30, 2009).
 * Richard McCord, The Chain Gang: One Newspaper Versus the Gannett Empire (University of Missouri Press, 2001), ISBN 9780826213754, pp.141ff (excerpts available at Google Books).
 * Abraham L. Gitlow, Being the Boss: The Importance of Leadership and Power (Beard Books, 2004), ISBN 9781587982347, pp.201-202 (excerpts available at Google Books). (describes Neuharth's removal of Miller)
 * the building of the Oklahoma State University School of Journalism and Broadcasting is Paul Miller Hall OSU Journalism and Broadcasting home page (retrieved September 30, 2009).
 * Paul Miller (disambiguation)
 * Al Neuharth, Robyne Robinson, List of Oklahoma State University Greek alumni namesake of the OSU School of Journalism, Daily O'Collegian, List of Oklahoma State University people. Add link at Gannett Corporation, Frank Gannett (also add links for Neuharth)

Bruce Spizer

 * Doug McCash, "New Orleans lawyer creates the questions for a new Beatles Trivial Pursuit game", Times-Picayune, August 10, 2009.
 * reprinted as Who's tops in Beatles trivia? Bruce Spizer, AP at USA Today, August 17, 2009.


 * Bruce Spizer is New Orleans' Beatles Expert (Video), Times-Picayune, August 10, 2009.
 * The Beatles in America (Spizer's website)
 * Tatiana Morales, "'The Beatles Are Coming!': New Book With Over 450 Images Of The Fab Four And More", CBSNews.com, Feb. 5, 2004. (review of book, he appeared on The Early Show)
 * Frequent appearances on All Things Considered (examples):
 * 'The White Album' 40 Years Later, audio interview with Spizer on All Things Considered (November 24, 2008)
 * The Beatles in America audio interview with Spizer on All Things Considered (April 13, 2006).
 * "The Lost Beatles Tapes, audio interview with Spizer on All Things Considered (March 14, 2003).

Category:People associated with The Beatles Category:People from New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Edna Gunderson, "Art in 'Beatles Box of Vision' is 'married to the music'", USA Today, September 8, 2009. ("An added "catalography" book extensively chronicles both catalogs, with an essay by Beatles author Bruce Spizer.")
 * Allan Kozin, "A Book Publisher, Beatlemaniacs? Why Don't You Do It on Your Own?", New York Times, December 26, 2006. (bio info and the following: "These volumes offer a wealth of detail about the Beatles' American recordings and their first visit to the United States, touching on everything from contracts and lawsuits to promotional materials, all richly illustrated. Mr. Spizer's imprint, 498 Productions, refers to the catalog number of a Vee-Jay single on which the Beatles' name is misspelled (as Beattles).")
 * "Apple: Beatles Tape "Bollocks" ", Rolling Stone, December 17, 2003.
 * David Fickling, "Psst! Wanna buy Abbey Road?", The Guardian, February 21, 2003.
 * "That Old Feeling: Meet the Beatles", TIME, Feb. 07, 2004.
 * Bruce Weber, "Alan Livingston, at 91; helped to reshape American pop culture with Beatles, Bozo", New York Times reprinted at boston.com, March 22, 2009. (quotes from one of Spizer's books)
 * Beatlemania — in 5 volumes, Deseret News, February 6, 2004 (pay site) ("Spizer is what you'd call an expert in the subject").
 * "Officially on the Web - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah", New York Daily News, November 13, 2000 (Spizer's is the "most prominent" of a batch of new Beatles projects)

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