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Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop.
Stayed in Rooms 6 & 7
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Johnson, Betsey, What is "pure Betsey," what makes her so much of the femme-cultural lexicon, is that her heart is in the mass-market. While some of her stuff is expensive and far-out, Johnson remains true to affordable, cute, easy to wear clothing.
Stayed in Room 7
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Goldsmith, Jerry, a prolific and versatile composer and his name has appeared so often in film titles that one can be excused for thinking that he was the only composer on the movie scene, seemingly capable of crafting several quality scores a year. In total he created more than 200 soundtracks over his long career.
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Viereck, Peter’s literary heritage inspired his own writing, and his powerful intellect enabled him to produce highly prolific works in history, politics, philosophy, and verse. Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history.
Stayed in Room 3 and 6
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Koppel, Ted, has won every major broadcasting award, including 37 Emmy Awards, six George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 Dupont-Columbia Awards, nine Overseas Press Club Awards, two George Polk Awards and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
Stayed in Room 15
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Hunter, Holly, one of the most versatile and charismatic actresses that Hollywood has to offer, Hunter has made a name for herself with smart, strong portrayals of dependably eccentric women.
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Riggs, Bobby, was one of the smartest, most calculating and resourceful court strategists tennis has seen, particularly in his defensive circumventions.
Stayed in Room 19
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Kennedy, Robert F. Jr., is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply, but his reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions.
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Murray Teichman, Arthur, American ballroom-dancing instructor and entrepreneur who established a successful mail-order dance-instruction business and, by 1965, more than 350 franchised dance studios, including nearly 50 in foreign countries.
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Maxwell, Frank, a character for more than 60 years who was also active in the acting unions AFTRA, SAG and Actors' Equity Association. Known for several years as Dan Rooney on TV's "General Hospital," was a longtime union activist and past president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Cantor, Paul, was Chairman and CEO of National Trust Company. Previously, he was President and CEO of Confederation Life Insurance Company. Before that, Paul was with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), most recently as President, Investment Bank. Paul’s public sector experience includes establishing and serving as Executive Director for the World Bank-sponsored Toronto International Leadership Center.
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Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, is often regarded as the best all-around female athlete in the world and the all-time greatest heptathlete. She has won three gold, one silver and one bronze Olympic medals. At 23 feet nine inches, she holds the American record for the long jump. With her score of 7,161, she was the first woman to earn more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon, and has held the heptathlon world record since 1986.
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Horwitz, Dr. Jerome P., Researcher who first discovered AZT in the 1960's as a possible cancer-fighting drug. In the course of his research, also discovering AZT and two other AIDS drugs in the 1960s. Unfortunately, because the three AIDS drugs had no use at the time, they were shelved without patents, so he never reaped their financial rewards.
Stayed in Room 11 (This Room is no Longer available)
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Keohane, Nannerl O., Nan Keohane is a major force in changing the perception about women's capabilities to lead major institutions of higher learning. She serves on the Trilateral Commission, the Council of Foreign Relations, and on the boards of directors of IBM, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director's Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health.
Stayed in Room 7 and 11 (Room 11 is no longer available)
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Ma, Yo-Yo, has recorded over 50 albums with Sony Classical Music ranging from Bach's Cello Suites to his Brazilian music crossover album. He has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Bernstein, Leonard Leonard's conducting repertoire encompassed the standard literature, he may be best remembered for his performances and recordings of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Sibelius and Mahler. Particularly notable were his performances of the Mahler symphonies with the New York Philharmonic in the 1960s, sparking a renewed interest in the works of Mahler.
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Johnson, Philip, has become one of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing his first building at the age of 36, Johnson had been client, critic, author, historian, museum director, but not an architect.
He literally coined the term "International School of Architecture" for an exhibition at MOMA.
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Henning, Paul, throughout the 1960s, was the creative mastermind behind three of the most successful sitcoms on television: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963), and Green Acres (1965)--all of which were narratively interthreaded, and the first of which was perhaps the most successful network series ever.
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Bellow, Saul, a playwright as well as a novelist, is the author of The Last Analysis and of three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He has contributed fiction to Partisan Review, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire, and to literary quarterlies. He won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
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Murden, Tori, crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a row boat, the American Pearl, following an 81-day voyage. She becomes the first American - and the first woman - to row across the Atlantic alone.
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Santoni, Professor Emeritus Ronald E., a world-renowned scholar on the philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre. He has been a fellow at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and at Yale University and also has served as a visiting scholar and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge, England. He is a Life Member at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he also was a visiting fellow.
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Born, Ross, co-president of an 81-year-old family-owned candy company is a force in the candy market. "Just Born" now markets its confections in over 35 countries.
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Koppel, Andrea, a State Department correspondent for CNN. She has earned numerous awards for her work: 1991 local Emmy Award for "Haiti: After the Coup," Radio and Television Award for the 1996 "Daughters of the Revolution," a documentary about women in China, and an AP Radio Award.
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Berger, Joseph, Joseph Berger was born in Russia in 1944 & came to the United States when he was five years old. Currently deputy education editor at "The New York Times", he has also reported on religion & education for the paper & served as its bureau chief in White Plains. The author of "The Young Scientists", and the acclaimed memoir "Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust," Berger lives in Larchmont, New York, with his wife & daughter.
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