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by Clifton Fadiman


  Onassis, Aristotle

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 9

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 13, 22

  Kennedy, Robert, 3

  O’Neal, Tatum

  O’Neill, Eugene

  Harlow, Jean, 1

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  Orlando, V. E.

  Wilson, Woodrow, 5

  Orléans, François d’

  Rachel, 1

  Orsay, Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel d’

  Oscar II

  Ossian

  Johnson, Samuel, 19

  Oswin, King

  St. Aidan, 1

  Oswy, King

  St. Aidan, 1

  O’Toole, Peter

  Ott, Mel

  Stengel, Casey, 1

  Otto

  Ouida

  Owen, Marv

  Feller, Bob, 1

  Owen, Robert

  Pachmann, Vladimir de

  Packer, Alfred

  Paderewski, Ignace Jan

  Masaryk, Jan, 1

  Paetus, Caecina

  Arria, 1

  Pagnol, Marcel

  Simenon, Georges, 2

  Pahlavi, Reza

  Bacall, Lauren, 1

  Paige, Leroy Robert “Satchel”

  Paine, Thomas

  Paley, William

  Palmer, Arnold

  Nicklaus, Jack, 1

  Palmer, Bertha Honore

  Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 3

  Palmer, Jim

  Weaver, Earl, 2

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple

  Paquin, Anna

  Park, Mungo

  Parker, Dorothy

  Bankhead, Talullah, 2

  Benchley, Robert, 7, 9

  Coolidge, Calvin, 25

  Kaufman, George S., 6

  Ross, Harold, 2

  Woollcott, Alexander, 2

  Parker, Henry Taylor

  Parker, Sir Hyde

  Nelson, Horatio, 4

  Parker, Quannah

  Parmenion

  Alexander III, 6

  Parr, Jack

  Allen, Fred, 3

  Parr, Samuel

  Parrhasius

  Zeuxis, 1

  Parrish, Maxfield

  Parsons, John

  Norbury, John Toler, 1

  Partridge, John

  Pascal, Blaise

  Pater, Walter

  Patti, Adelina

  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 3

  Patton, George S., Jr.

  Paul I, Czar

  Alexander I, 1

  Paul III

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 3

  Paul VI

  Rizzuto, Phil, 1

  Pavlen, Adrian

  Nurmi, Paavo, 1

  Peale, Norman Vincent

  Peard, John Whitehead

  Pearson, Hesketh

  Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 5

  Pearson, Richard

  Jones, John Paul, 1

  Peary, Robert Edwin

  Peck, Gregory

  Peckinpah, Sam

  Peel, Robert

  Byron, George Gordon, 1

  Pembroke, Thomas Herbert

  Penick, Harvey

  Penn, William

  Charles II, 5

  Fox, George, 1

  Pennell, Joseph

  Bellows, George Wesley, 1

  Penrose, Roland

  Braque, Georges, 1

  Picasso, Pablo, 17

  Percy, Elizabeth

  Somerset, Charles Seymour, 1

  Perdiccas

  Alexander III, 3

  Perelman, S. J.

  Pericles

  Alcibiades, 1

  Perkins, Frances

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 3

  Perkins, Maxwell

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 2

  Hemingway, Ernest, 3

  Wolfe, Thomas, 1

  Perlman, Itzhak

  Perón, Eva Duarte de

  Perón, Juan

  Borges, Jorge, 1

  Perot, H. Ross

  Perry, Oliver Hazard

  Pershing, John

  Stanton, Charles E., 1

  Perugino, Peter

  Pétain, Philippe

  Peter I

  Peter III

  Alexander I, 1

  Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt

  Peterson, Verita

  Bogart, Humphrey, 1

  Petronius, Gaius

  Phelps, William Lyon

  Philip, John Woodward

  Philip, Prince

  Anne, Princess, 2

  Elizabeth II, 3, 4, 6, 9

  Philip II

  Alexander III, 1, 2

  Dionysius II, 1

  Philip III

  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1

  Philip V

  Philip the Acarnanian

  Alexander III, 5

  Philipp, Isidore

  Bartók, Béla, 1

  Philippe d’Orléans

  Voltaire, 1

  Phillips, Wendell

  Phocion

  Demosthenes, 1

  Piatigorsky, Gregor

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1

  Heifetz, Jascha, 2

  Picabia, Francis

  Picasso, Pablo

  Braque, Georges, 1

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 3

  Matisse, Henri, 1

  Stein, Gertrude, 9

  Piccard, Auguste

  Piccard, Jean Felix

  Piccard, Auguste, 1

  Pillet, Léon

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 3

  Pinckney, Charles

  Adams, John, 2

  Pinter, Harold

  Pinza, Ezio

  Piper, John

  George VI, 1

  Pitt, William

  Planck, Max

  Einstein, Albert, 3

  Plath, Sylvia

  Plato

  Pliny the Younger

  Plon-Plon

  Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, 1

  Plotinus

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco

  Polidori, John

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1

  Polk, James K.

  Pollack, Sydney

  Fonda, Jane, 2

  Pollack, Tom

  Lucas, George, 1

  Pollini, Maurizio

  Previn, André, 1

  Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson

  Pompeia

  Caesar, Julius, 3

  Pompey

  Caesar, Julius, 5

  Pope, Alexander

  Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 1

  Pope, Arthur Upham

  Pope, John

  Jackson, “Stonewall,” 7

  Stuart, James Ewell Brown, 1

  Porson, Richard

  Porter, Katherine Anne

  McCullers, Carson, 2

  Wylie, Elinor, 1

  Portman, Eric

  Evans, Edith, 2

  Porus

  Alexander III, 7

  Pougnet, Jean

  Beecham, Thomas, 9

  Pourtalès, Mme. de

  Eugénie, Empress, 1

  Poussin, Nicolas

  Powell, Anthony

  Vidal, Gore, 1

  Previn, André

  Monteux, Pierre, 1

  Pringle, Sir John

  Prokofiev, Sergei

  Protogenes

  Apelles, 1

  Ptolemy I

  Euclid, 1

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Britten, Benjamin, 2

  Toscanini, Arturo, 3, 4

  Pugh, Doc

  Armstrong, Louis, 6

  Pulitzer, Joseph

  Purcell, Henry

  Dennis, John, 2

  Pushkin, Alexander

  Putnam, Israel

  Pyle, Ernest Taylor

  Pyrrhus

  Pythagoras

  Quatrefages, Armand de

  Virchow, Rudolf, 2

  Quayle, Dan
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br />   Queensbury, William Douglas

  Quennell, Peter

  Fleming, Ian, 1

  Quesnay, François

  Quin, James

  Quincy, Josiah

  Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1

  Quintus Ennius

  Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius, 1

  Quisenberry, Dan

  Rabelais, François

  Rachel

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  Racine, Jean

  Raft, George

  Raglan, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset

  Raikes, Alice

  Carroll, Lewis, 2, 3

  Rainier III

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Ramanujan, Srinivasa

  Ramsey, Alice Huyler

  Randolph, Jefferson

  Jefferson, Thomas, 14

  Randolph, John

  Clay, Henry, 2

  Ransom, Herbert

  Adams, Franklin P., 1

  Raper, Kenneth

  Bonner, John, 1

  Raphael

  Picasso, Pablo, 20

  Rather, Dan

  Ravel, Maurice

  Gershwin, George, 4

  Ray, Maud

  Thomson, Sir George Paget, 1

  Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reagan, Ronald

  Bush, George, 1

  Carter, Jimmy, 10

  Eastwood, Clint, 3

  Ford, Gerald, 3

  Reagan, Nancy, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Récamier, Mme. de

  Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de, 4

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 4

  Redford, Robert

  Fiennes, Ralph, 1

  Fonda, Jane, 2

  Garvey, Steve, 1

  Redgrave, Michael

  Reed, Thomas Brackett

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 4

  Reger, Max

  Rehan, Ada

  Reinagle, Ramsay

  Constable, John, 1

  Reincken, J. A.

  Bach, J. S., 1

  Reinhardt, Max

  Reinsdorf, Jerry

  Steinbrenner, George, 3

  Reisenhauer, Alfred

  Remington, Frederick

  Hearst, William Randolph, 1

  Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

  Shaw, George Bernard, 20

  Reuther, Walter

  Reynolds, Burt

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua

  Gainsborough, Thomas, 2

  Siddons, Sarah, 2

  Rhodes, Cecil John

  Rice, Grantland

  Ruth, “Babe,” 5

  Richard I

  Richards, I. A.

  Eliot, T. S., 1

  Roethke, Theodore, 2

  Richardson, Jonathan

  Caroline of Ansbach, 1

  Richardson, Sir Ralph

  Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis

  Marie de Medicis, 1

  Richter, Hans

  Rickey, Branch

  Riddell, Lord

  Greenwood, Frederick, 1

  Ridley, Nicholas

  Latimer, Hugh, 1

  Rigaud, Hyacinthe

  Riley, James Whitcomb

  Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

  Butler, Samuel, 2

  Rivarol, Antoine de

  Rivera, Antonio

  Rizzuto, Phil

  Berra, Yogi, 12

  Robards, Rachel Donelson

  Jackson, Andrew, 1

  Robbe-Grillet, Mme. Alain

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 3

  Robert, Léopold

  Robert I

  Roberts, Leon

  Wills, Maury, 1

  Robespierre

  Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, 3

  Robinson, Edward Arlington

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 3

  Robinson, Jackie

  Robinson, Sugar Ray

  Louis, Joe, 2

  Roche, Sir Boyle

  Rochefort, Comtesse de

  Nivernais, Louis Jules Mancini Mazarin, 1

  Rochefort, Victor-Henri

  Daudet, Alphonse, 1

  Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de la

  Louis XVI, 3

  Rochester, Earl of

  Barrow, Isaac, 1

  Charles II, 8

  Rockefeller, John D., Sr.

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

  Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich

  Rockne, Knute

  Gipp, George, 1

  Rodgers, Richard Charles

  O’Hara, John, 4

  Rodin, Auguste

  Brancusi, Constantin, 1

  Fallières, Armand, 1

  Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 4

  Rodzinski, Artur

  Roe, Preacher

  Musial, Stan, 1

  Roethke, Theodore

  Rogers, Ginger

  Astaire, Fred, 3

  Hayward, Leland, 1

  Rogers, Samuel

  Byron, George Gordon, 2

  Rogers, Will

  Coolidge, Calvin, 13

  Rohan-Chabot, Chevalier de

  Voltaire, 3

  Roland, Jeanne Manon

  Romanoff, Mike

  Bogart, Humphrey, 1

  Romney, George

  Fuseli, Henry, 2

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5

  Truman, Harry S., 3

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Churchill, Winston, 18, 19

  George VI, 2

  Long, Huey P., 2

  MacArthur, Douglas, 2

  Mayer, Louis B., 1

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1, 2

  Thomas, Norman, 1

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Astor, Nancy, 5

  Holmes, Fanny Dixwell, 1

  Hoover, Herbert, 2

  Jusserand, Jean Adrien A. J., 1, 2

  Knox, Philander Chase, 1

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 8

  Parker, Quannah, 1

  Robinson, Edward Arlington, 2

  Sargent, John Singer, 4

  Taft, William Howard, 5

  Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore

  Jusserand, Jean Adrien A. J., 3

  Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.

  Root, Elihu

  Roper, William

  More, Thomas, 2

  Rops, Félicien

  Rorem, Ned

  Bernstein, Leonard, 4

  Stein, Gertrude, 11

  Rose, Billy

  Stravinsky, Igor, 4

  Rose, Pete

  Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 1

  Rosenthal, Moriz

  Pachmann, Vladimir de, 2

  Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 2

  Ross, Harold

  Benchley, Robert, 1

  Parker, Dorothy, 1

  Thurber, James, 1, 2, 8

  Ross, John

  Smith, Sydney, 2

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

  Liszt, Franz, 1

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 2

  Roth, Philip

  Susann, Jacqueline, 1

  Rothschild, Alfred

  Asquith, Herbert, 1

  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 8

  Rothschild, Sir Nathan Meyer

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Voltaire, 5

  Routh, Martin

  Rowland, Henry Augustus

  Royall, Ann

  Adams, John Quincy, 1

  Royce, Josiah

  James, William, 1

  Rubinstein, Anton

  Rubinstein, Artur

  Heifetz, Jascha, 2

  Laughton, Charles, 2

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1

  Ruggles, Carl

  Rulhières, Claude

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 5

  Rush, Benjamin

  Webster, Noah, 2

  Ruskin, John

  Russell, Bertrand

  Eden, Anthony, 1

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bsp; Russell, John

  Arnim, Harry von, 1

  Ruth, George Herman “Babe”

  Aaron, Henry, 2, 3

  Caruso, Enrico, 2

  Hoover, Herbert, 3

  Jackson, Reggie, 1

  Ryland, William

  Blake, William, 2

  Ryleyev, Kondraty

  Nicholas I, 1

  Rysanek, Leonie

  Bing, Rudolf, 8

  Ryskind, Morrie

  Kaufman, George S., 7

  Sage, Russell

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin

  Saint-Saëns, Camille

  Bartók, Béla, 1

  Salinger, J. D.

  Salinger, Pierre

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 15

  Salisbury, Countess of

  Edward III, 1

  Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

  Salk, Jonas, E.

  Salmond, Felix

  Hoffman, Josef Casimir, 1

  Salomon, Johann Peter

  George III, 4

  Samuelson, Paul

  Sandburg, Carl

  Auden, W. H., 8

  Sanders, George

  Sandwich, John Montagu

  Warburton, William, 1

  Wilkes, John, 3

  Santayana, George

  Sarasate, Pablo de

  Sargent, John Singer

  Sargent, Sir Malcolm

  Saroyan, William

  Arlen, Michael, 2

  Satie, Erik

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 3

  Satyrus

  Demosthenes, 2

  Scarron, Paul

  Scheffel, Josef Victor von

  Schiffer, Claudia

  Schiller, Friedrich von

  Hugo, Victor, 4

  Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst

  Schliemann, Heinrich

  Schmidt, Mike

  Schnabel, Artur

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 1

  Schnabel, Stefan

  Schnabel, Artur, 2

  Schödl, Max

  Scholl, Aurélien

  Schönbein, Christian Friedrich

  Schönberg, Arnold

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Schumann-Heink, Ernestine

  Schwab, Charles

  Schwartz, Delmore

  Schwartz, Gertrude

  Schwartz, Delmore, 2

  Schwartz, Maurice

  Schwarzenberg, Felix

  Schweitzer, Albert

  Scipio Nasica Serapio, Publius Cornelius

  Scott, Robert Falson

  Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace, 1

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Scribner, Charles

  Hemingway, Ernest, 3

  Seagrave, Sterling

  Luce, Henry B., 1

  Sebastiano Del Piombo, Fra

  Secombe, Harry

  Sellers, Peter, 1

  Sedgwick, Catharine Maria

  Sedgwick, John

  Sedgwick, Theodore

  Sedley, Sir Charles

  Seeley, Sir John Robert

  Seferis, George

  Segovia, Andrés

  Seitz, John

  Wilder, Billy, 1

  Selig, Bud

  Berra, Yogi, 17

  Sellers, Peter

  Selwyn, Edgar

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 1

  Selwyn, George Augustus

  Bruce, James, 1

  Selznick, David

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 10

  Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

  Senz, Eddie “Papa”

  Chaliapin, Feodor, 3

  Servetus, Michael

  Severinsen, Doc

  Rose, Pete, 5

  Severn, Joseph

  Keats, John, 3

  Sevitzky, Fabien

  Rodzinski, Artur, 1

  Seward, William Henry

  Shackleton, Ernest

  Lloyd George, David, 5

 

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