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Al Schwartz (other)
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Al Schwartz may refer to: * Al Schwartz (producer) (born 1932), American television producer * Al Schwartz (writer) (1910–1988), American screenwriter, television producer, and director * Alan Schwartz (born 1950/1951), American executive * Albert Schwartz (swimmer) (1907–1986), American swimmer * Albert Schwartz (1923–1992), American zoologist * Allen G. Schwartz (1934–2003), American federal judge * Aloysius Schwartz (1930–1992), American priest * Alvin Schwartz (children's author) (1927–1992), American author and illustrator of children's books * Alvin Schwartz (comics) (1916–2011), American comic-book writer See also * Schwartz (surname) Schwartz is a last name of German/Yiddish (German-Jewish) origin, meaning "black" (modern spelling in German is ). It was originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion.http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schwartz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Schwartz (producer)
Allen "Al" Schwartz (born January 3, 1932) is an American television producer who has produced a variety of shows in association with Dick Clark. He is best known for producing award shows such as the American Music Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Shows that he co-produced were nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards three times and for a Primetime Emmy Award once. Early life Schwartz was born January 3, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Lowell Grammar School and Roosevelt High School. After graduating from Wright Junior College in 1951, he attended the University of Wisconsin. At the University of Wisconsin, Schwartz was a student in the first television class created at the university, president of the Entertainers Guild, served on the Executive Board of The Haresfoot Club, and appeared in Haresfoot show productions. Career After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1953 with a B.S. degree, Schwartz was hired in July by the then-new WKOW-TV, an ABC-affili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Schwartz (writer)
Albert Schwartz (29 November 1910 – 25 March 1988) was an American screenwriter, television producer, and director. Biography He was a writer for ''The Red Skelton Show'', where he and other writers won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and were nominated for the same award in 1962. He also wrote scripts for ''The Jackie Gleason Show'', ''The Milton Berle Show'', ''The Brady Bunch'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''Petticoat Junction'', and other television shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Earlier in his career, Schwartz wrote for Bob Hope's radio program, ''The Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope''. Nachman, Gerald (1998). Raised on Radio, p. 144. Pantheon Books, New York. . He was the brother of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator and producer of ''Gilligan's Island'' and ''The Brady Bunch'', and Elroy Schwartz Elroy Schwartz (June 23, 1923 – June 14, 2013) was an American comedy and television writer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Schwartz
Alan David Schwartz is an American businessman and is the executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, an investment banking firm based in Chicago and New York. He was previously the last president and chief executive officer of Bear Stearns when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York forced its March 2008 acquisition by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Early life and education Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, he is the son of a Jewish traveling salesman and Presbyterian housewife from Kansas. Schwartz is a 1972 graduate of Duke University. There he pitched on the baseball team as a scholarship athlete, making the ACC academic honor roll three times. He was drafted as a pitcher by the Cincinnati Reds but never reported due to an injury. Career Alan Schwartz joined Bear Stearns in 1976 first working in Dallas and then in 1979, he was appointed the director of research and investment in New York City. In 1985, he became executive vice president and head of Bear Stearns' Investment Banking Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Schwartz (swimmer)
Albert L. Schwartz (December 21, 1907 – December 7, 1986) was an American attorney who practiced in California and a competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Schwartz received a bronze medal for his performance in the men's 100-meter freestyle, finishing third in a time of 58.8 seconds in the event final. His win came after the reign of actor Johnny Weissmuller as Olympic swimming freestyle sprinting champion, after Weissmuller accepted a Hollywood movie contract. Schwartz first became a national swimming champion at Marshall High School in Chicago. Beginning his Northwestern University career in 1928, Schwartz was ranked as the nation's outstanding freestyle swimmer for his entire time in college. Schwartz came very close to making the 1928 Olympic Swimming Team, but fell short. While attending Northwestern, he became the first swimmer to score a triple victory at the NCAA championships when he took thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Schwartz (zoologist)
Albert Schwartz (September 13, 1923 – October 18, 1992) was an American zoologist who worked extensively with the herpetofauna of Florida and the West Indies, and later with butterflies. One magazine article once dubbed him as one of the "Kings of West Indian Anole Taxonomy". Career Schwartz obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan in mammalogy in 1952. Already at that time, he had a keen interest in amphibians and reptiles, as well as in warmer climates. Schwartz spent most of his professional working life at Miami-Dade Community College; he was also supported by a family trust, which he used to fund his own activities as well as field expeditions by others. He was a Research Associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and also an associate of the Florida Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), and the ''Museo Nacional de Historia Natural'', Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Starting in 1954, he worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to: Buildings * Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee * Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas * Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence * Allen House (other) * Allen Power Plant (other) Businesses *Allen (brand), an American tool company *Allen's, an Australian brand of confectionery * Allens (law firm), an Australian law firm formerly known as Allens Arthur Robinson *Allen's (restaurant), a former hamburger joint and nightclub in Athens, Georgia, United States *Allen & Company LLC, a small, privately held investment bank *Allens of Mayfair, a butcher shop in London from 1830 to 2015 *Allens Boots, a retail store in Austin, Texas * Allens, Inc., a brand of canned vegetables based in Arkansas, US, now owned by Del Monte Foods * Allen's department store, a.k.a. Allen's, George Allen, Inc., Philadelphia, USA People * Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloysius Schwartz
Aloysius Philip Schwartz (September 18, 1930 – March 16, 1992), commonly known as Fr. Al Schwartz, was an American Roman Catholic priest who began charity programs for poor orphans in Korea, the Philippines, and Mexico, and founded the Sisters of Mary of Banneux and the Brothers of Christ. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Francis. Early life and family Schwartz was born in Washington, D.C., United States to Louis Schwartz and Cedelia Bourassa, the third of eight children. His father sold furniture door-to-door, and his mother had come to work in Washington, D.C., during the First World War, where she met her future husband. His mother died of cancer when he was 16 years old. Seminary life and ordination In 1944, he entered St. Charles Seminary in Maryland. He finished his B.A. degree at Maryknoll College. He came to know the Belgian ''Société des Auxiliaires des Missions'' (S.A.M.), founded by Vincent Lebbe, the so-called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Schwartz (children's Author)
Alvin Schwartz (April 25, 1927 – March 14, 1992) was an American author and journalist who wrote more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers. Life and career Schwartz was born in life the son of Gussie and Harry Schwartz, a taxi driver. After a stint in the navy, Schwartz became interested in writing. He received his bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He reported for The Binghamton Press from 1951 to 1955. During his professional writing career his work had been published by a variety of firms, including Lippincott, Bantam Books, Farrar Straus, and HarperCollins. A series of his books on folklore for children were illustrated by Glen Rounds and each featured a type of folklore: the first, ''A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues'', was published in 1972. Others in this series included ''Tomfoolery'', which featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Schwartz (comics)
Alvin Stanley Schwartz (November 17, 1916 – October 28, 2011) was an American comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ... writer best known for his Batman and Superman stories. He was also a novelist, poet, and essayist. Biography Early life and career Alvin Schwartz debuted in comics with an issue of ''Fairy Tale Parade'' in 1939. He then wrote extensively for Sheldon Mayer at All-American Publications and then for DC Comics, National Comics, two of the three companies which merged to form DC Comics. Golden Age of comics books Schwartz wrote his first Batman story in 1942, expanding into the Batman newspaper comic strip in August 1944 and the Superman (comic strip), Superman strip two months later. Through 1952, he scripted for most of the company's newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |