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Thomas Williams (Australian politician)
1897 births | 1992 deaths | australian labor party politicians | members of the australian house of representatives | members of the australian house of representatives for robertsonThomas Francis Williams (7 April 1897 – 1992) was an Australian politician.
Born in Young, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools and then the University of Sydney. He became a barrister in 1923. In 1943 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Robertson, defeating sitting UAP member Eric Spooner. He held the seat until 1949, when he was defeated by Liberal candidate Roger Dean. Williams returned to law and died in 1992.
Wally Shaner
1900 births | 1992 deaths | american military personnel of world war ii | boston red sox players | cincinnati reds players | cleveland indians players | major league left fielders | major league players from virginia | virginia polytechnic institute & state university alumniWalter Dedaker Shaner [Skinny] (May 24, 1900 - November 13, 1992) was a reserve outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly at left field for three different teams between the 1923 and 1929 seasons. Listed at 6' 2", 195 lb., Shaner batted and threw right-handed. He attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, Shaner spent 13 years in baseball (1920-1932), including parts of four major league seasons with the Cleveland Indians (1923), Boston Red Sox (1926-1927) and Cincinnati Reds (1929). His most productive season came in 1927 for the Red Sox, when he hit a .273 batting average in a career-high 122 games.
Magazine Management Co., Inc.
1910 births | 1992 deaths | american magazine publishers (people) | american pulp magazine publishers (people) | comic book company founders | comic book publishers (people) | people from brooklynMagazine Management Co., Inc.was the actual named used by Martin Goodman-founder and publisher of Marvel Comics,in the 1960s and 1970s.Under this company name Goodman published a variety of comic publication-color and larger magazine format black and white magazines,adult material,adventure,celebrity film magazines and others.In the fall of 1968, Goodman sold all his publishing businesses to the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation, which grouped them as a subsidiary called Magazine Management Company. Goodman remained as publisher[6] until 1972. Two years later he founded a new comics company, Seaboard Periodicals, but it folded a year afterward.
Perfect Film and Chemical renamed itself Cadence Industries in 1973, the first of many post-Goodman changes, mergers, and acquisitions that led to what became the 21st century corporation Marvel Entertainment Group.
Bob de Moor
1925 births | 1992 deaths | belgian comics artists | belgian comics writers Bob de Moor is the pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor (Antwerp, December 20, 1925 - Brussels, August 26, 1992), a Belgian comics creator. Chiefly noted as an artist, he is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style. He wrote and drew several comics series on his own, but also collaborated with Hergé on several volumes of The Adventures of Tintin.
Biography
Following studies at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, De Moor started his career at the Afim animations studios.Dibrell Williams
1910 births | 1992 deaths | american baseball players | boston red sox players | major league players from arkansas | major league second basemen | major league shortstops | minor league baseball managers | philadelphia athletics players'Edwin Dibrell Williams (born January 19, 1910, in Greenbrier, Arkansas; died April 2, 1992, in Searcy, Arkansas) was an American major league baseball player.He played from 1930-1935 with the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He played in the 1931 World Series with the Athletics.
Robert King (cricketer)
1909 births | 1992 deaths | cricket umpires | english cricketers | essex cricketersRobert King (also Robert Stuart-King May 10, 1909 — May 11, 1992) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Essex. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea and died in Westcliffe-on-Sea.
King represented Essex in one match during the 1928 season, scoring just three runs from the lower-order, and conceding 20 runs from 7 overs in the ball in his two bowling spells.
Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh
1937 births | 1992 deaths | art collectors | earls in the peerage of the united kingdom | guinness family | irish anglicansArthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, (May 20 1937 - 1992), known as Benjamin was the son of Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden and Elizabeth Cecilia Hare. He inherited the title in 1967. He was a member of the 13th Seanad, nominated by the Taoiseach, Liam T. Cosgrave.
He married Miranda Daphne Jane Smiley, daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kenmay on March 12 1963 and they divorced in 1984. They resided at Farmleigh, Dublin, Ireland. Kenmay is about 16 miles from Aberdeen
