Applegate said she had worked on The Most Famous Man in America for 20 years, originally planning it as a university assignment.
He became the most famous man on the planet, a hero in a company of heroes, and then he simply walked away, taking a desk job at NASA and retiring two years later.
The fact that these volumes were owned by such a famous man means they might fetch prices roughly double that of books lacking such a provenance, says Jonathan Hill, a rare-book dealer in New York.
To test this watch, I gave it to the head of our running club, a famous older man who did Ironman Triathalon, and long distance endurance events.
The famous Iron Man armored suits are Bobbitt creations, too.
Despite his outward glamour, this famous young man was, at 25, living in the attic of his mother's London boarding house in Ebury Street and having his first nervous breakdown.
"Bawden's acting, her comic timing, singing, dancing and stage presence were all faultless and earned her - and her more famous main man - a joyous standing ovation on a buzzy, exciting night at the Crucible, " he wrote.
The mountains were first sketched in 1798 by the highly regarded English cartographer James Rennell, a man already famous for mapping large parts of India.
WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes
But Stan the Man was famous, not for earning more than the President (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle), but for hitting a baseball.
FORBES: Was the Late Stan Musial Baseball's Greatest Living Hitter? How About Barry Bonds?
This is a man who was famous for being such an excellent whip.
Following the play-off triumph over Brechin City in May, the Whitburn man said his famous strike against Bayern had finally been eclipsed as a career highlight.
One of the Isle of Man's most famous landmarks will be lit up, following a series of repairs.
Looking at least a decade younger than his 71 years, Starr settles into the corner of a couch and talks about celebrity then vs. celebrity now -- this from the perspective of a man who has been famous for nearly 50 years.
The conflict between real modernisation and the vested interests of this bureaucracy is summed up in the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and now its most famous political prisoner.
Nevertheless, Allen Ginsberg was said to be a generous man, giving support to less famous poets and other writers.
He now wants to create a documentary on the criminal justice system, informed by the experience of being arrested not as a famous academic, but as an unrecognized black man.
Bob Gwynne, associate curator of rail vehicles at the National Railway Museum in York - where the engine 'Flying Scotsman' is being restored - said the famous train came about because of one forgotten man.
In lieu of McQueen, Kevin Costner plays the title character, a retired Secret Service man who is hired to protect a famous singer (played by Whitney Houston).
It was a sign that Mr Martin was his own man, not just the son of a famous veteran of Canadian politics.
As the reader is reminded, Austerlitz was Fred Astaire's real name as well as a famous Napoleonic battle, and the experiences of Austerlitz the man merge with other traumas in European history, and with the thoughts of Mr Sebald's hypersensitive narrator.
The 70-year-old singer made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" performed Sunday night to a worshipful crowd at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre.
Couric is one of the few famous women who have been able to date a much younger man without the press making an enormous deal out of it.
Team Lewis regrouped, firing Correa and bringing in Emmanuel Steward, trainer of more than a dozen world champions at the famous Kronk gymnasium in Detroit, Michigan, and ironically the man that had masterminded McCall's win over Lewis.
She also explores man's fascination through the ages with the most famous island of all, Atlantis, by examining the archaeological and literary evidence of the lost kingdom.
Neither man, nor any other available telecom executive, is as famous as Capellas, though.
James Michener was a big man in more ways than the one for which he was famous.
The film "All the President's Men" made famous the late-night parking garage conversations Woodward had with the mystery man.
They man checkpoints and entrances near the churches and Dora's famous market.
Any customers who recognized the handsomest, best-dressed man in Washington kept it to themselves and did not disturb the famous actor.
Ultimately, I abandoned all preconceived perceptions of my career path and stature and took a job on basic cable with a network most famous for showing reruns, along with sitcoms created by a tall, black man who dresses like an old, black woman.
应用推荐