A.M. Rosenthal

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Canadian-born American journalist A.M. Rosenthal worked for over fifty years with the New York Times, becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent, and subsequently, a demanding chief editor of relatively conservative social and political bent. Abe Rosenthal was credited with modernizing and brightening American journalism's old 'Gray Lady', making extensive changes in the newspaper that resulted in the reversal of a declining readership and a great increase in advertising and profits.

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Henry Chauncey

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Henry Chauncey, February 9, 1905-December 3, 2002, was an educator and a seminal figure in the development of standardized educational examinations. He worked closely with Conant on a national scholarship program designed to offer opportunity to students of academic promise from more-humble backgrounds and from secondary schools across the United States.

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Skitch Henderson

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Grammy Award-winning Skitch Henderson is a pianist and orchestra leader and also the founder of the New York Pops Orchestra and a guest conductor of many symphony orchestras. He was better known to millions of viewers as the first bandleader on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1960s.

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