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John Riordan (businessman)
John Riordan may refer to: * John Riordan (mathematician) (1903–1988), American mathematician * John Riordan (banker), American banker, "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War" * John R. Riordan (born 1943), Canadian biochemist * John Riordan (businessman), Canadian businessman, owner of Riordon Paper Mills and The Toronto Mail ''The Toronto Mail'' was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario which through corporate mergers became first ''The Mail and Empire'', and then ''The Globe and Mail''. The ''Mail'' was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in Patney, Wi ... (from 1877 to 1895) * John Riordan (jockey) (1936–2021), New Zealand jockey See also * John Riordan Three-Decker, a historic house in Worcester, Massachusetts {{hndis, Riordan, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riordan (mathematician)
John Francis Riordan (April 22, 1903 – August 27, 1988) was an American mathematician and the author of major early works in combinatorics, particularly ''Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis'' and ''Combinatorial Identities''. Biography Riordan was a graduate of Yale University. In his early life he wrote a number of poems and essays and a book of short-stories, ''On the Make'', published in 1929, and was Editor-in-Chief of ''Salient'' and ''The Figure in the Carpet'', literary magazines published by The New School for Social Research in New York. He married Mavis McIntosh, the well-known poet and literary agent and founder of McIntosh & Otis. The couple had two daughters: Sheila Riordan and Kathleen Riordan Speeth, and were long time residents of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Riordan's long professional career was at Bell Labs, which he joined in 1926 (a year after its foundation) and where he remained, publishing over a hundred scholarly papers on combinatorial analy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riordan (banker)
John Riordan is an American banker credited with saving 105 South Vietnamese lives during the Fall of Saigon. He is known as the "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War". Actions during the Fall of Saigon In April 1975, Riordan was an Assistant Manager at Citibank in Saigon (modern-day Ho Chi Minh City). He was ordered to evacuate along with other Americans as North Vietnamese Army forces approached the city (then the capital of South Vietnam) during the final days of the Vietnam War. Riordan initially obeyed the evacuation orders and was flown to nearby Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Riordan began plotting ways to rescue his South Vietnamese coworkers, who were ineligible for evacuation (because they were not Americans) and who were likely to be executed by the Vietcong (because they were closely affiliated with Americans). He proposed numerous plans to Citibank and the US government but was repeatedly turned down. Eventually, Citibank told him to cease and desist his rescue efforts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John R
John R. (born John Richbourg, August 20, 1910 - February 15, 1986) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for playing rhythm and blues music on Nashville radio station WLAC. He was also a notable record producer and artist manager. Richbourg was arguably the most popular and charismatic of the four announcers at WLAC who showcased popular African-American music in nightly programs from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. (The other three were Gene Nobles, Herman Grizzard, and Bill "Hoss" Allen.) Later rock music disc jockeys, such as Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack, mimicked Richbourg's practice of using speech that simulated African-American street language of the mid-twentieth century. Richbourg's highly stylized approach to on-air presentation of both music and advertising earned him popularity, but it also created identity confusion. Because Richbourg and fellow disc jockey Allen used African-American speech patterns, many listeners thought that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riordan (businessman)
John Riordan may refer to: * John Riordan (mathematician) (1903–1988), American mathematician * John Riordan (banker), American banker, "Oskar Schindler of the Vietnam War" * John R. Riordan (born 1943), Canadian biochemist * John Riordan (businessman), Canadian businessman, owner of Riordon Paper Mills and The Toronto Mail ''The Toronto Mail'' was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario which through corporate mergers became first ''The Mail and Empire'', and then ''The Globe and Mail''. The ''Mail'' was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in Patney, Wi ... (from 1877 to 1895) * John Riordan (jockey) (1936–2021), New Zealand jockey See also * John Riordan Three-Decker, a historic house in Worcester, Massachusetts {{hndis, Riordan, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toronto Mail
''The Toronto Mail'' was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario which through corporate mergers became first ''The Mail and Empire'', and then ''The Globe and Mail''. The ''Mail'' was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in Patney, Wiltshire, England - died 1907 in Toronto). Patterson had been Postmaster of Toronto and was asked by the federal Conservative Party to become publisher of the newspaper. Patterson remained proprietor and editor until it changed hands with John Riordan (major creditor of the debts owed by The Mail) and Christopher William Bunting with the former assuming ownership. Riordan died in 1884, but control of the paper when to his brother Charles Alfred Riordan in 1882 with Bunting remaining as director of the Mail. It was the city's conservative paper until it declared itself independent of any political party in 1886. That prompted Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to found the ''Toronto Empire'' in 1887. The ''Mail'' eventually returned to Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riordan (jockey)
John Peter Riordan (1936 – 10 August 2021) was a New Zealand jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Biography Born in New Plymouth, Riordan was the son of Dennis and Agnes Riordan. He began his five-year jockey apprenticeship with Te Awamutu trainer Jack MacDonald when he was 11 years old, and rode his first winner at the age of 14. Riordan won the 1963 W. S. Cox Plate aboard Summer Regent. He rode the same horse as favourite in the 1963 Melbourne Cup, but finished third last. Other major races won by Riordan included the Auckland Cup in 1972, and the Wellington Cup. Riordan lived in Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ..., Australia, for the last 20 years of his life, and died there on 10 August 2021. He was survived by his wife, Pam. References 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |