Others said that he was chosen for his communications skills and educational level and because he was an established sports star.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He was just days from launching what he hoped would be a comeback a series of fifty concerts in London.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

He was known for being so stingy he refused to spend any of his money, unless forced to do so.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

He often commented on the fact that he was best known for a part he played for only three years.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

But by the time he was thirteen years old, he was winning against players two times his size and age.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He was found guilty of murder. Like those found guilty of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, he was hanged.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He was young and exciting. Republicans thought he was the right man to lead their young and exciting party.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

When he was sure she was dead, Murlock had sense enough to remember that the dead must be prepared for burial.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Brown's lawyers then argued that he was not guilty of the three crimes with which he was charged.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

You never seen a frog so honest and simple as he was, for all he was so skilled.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

A month later, he was saying he was not a candidate for president -- and never would be.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He was also influential in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, though he himself was white.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

He was concerned that he would lose the support of the scientific community if he revealed it.

VOA: special.2009.02.25