John Reed (1887)
John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The…
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Sidney Altman (1939)
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Austin Mitchell (1934)
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Émile Waldteufel (1837)
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