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Will Rogers. William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". [2] As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled ...
Jul 11, 1993 · Flags flew at half-staff at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades on Saturday to mourn Will Rogers Jr., a former congressman, journalist and actor who committed suicide after ...
Bronze Star. William Vann Rogers (October 20, 1911 – July 9, 1993), generally known as Will Rogers Jr., was an American politician, writer, and newspaper publisher. He was the eldest son of humorist Will Rogers (1879–1935) and Betty Blake Rogers (1879–1944). He was a Democratic U. S. Representative from California from January 3, 1943 ...
Bruce Rogers. Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. [1] Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often ...
Jun 12, 2006 · At college graduation in 1935, Rogers was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery. Letting his commission lapse, he purchased The Beverly Hill Citizen newspaper and covered the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent during 1936 and 1937. Rogers’ response to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was twofold.
Jul 11, 1993 · July 10, 1993 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. TUBAC, ARIZ. -- Will Rogers Jr., 81, a former congressman and film actor who was the son of the famed humorist, was found dead July 9 alongside his car near this ...
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Jul 3, 2024 · Bruce Rogers books in the Shapiro Rogers Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division Bruce Rogers has been called the greatest of all book designers. His most famous design is the "Centaur" typeface, which is based on that used in 1470 by the Venetian printer Nicholas Jenson in the De Evangelica Praeparatione of Eusebius.
