The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public. Richard Harding Davis was born into a well-to-do and rather pious Episcopalian family...
Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth-century America, however, Davis epitomized the Americ...
Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his dashing life-style, which seemed never to impede his...
While there have always been amateurs--those who have taken time from their usual labors and obligations to pursue a disciplined study of some subject outside their usual sphere--their emergence as a distinct and somewhat curious class is recent. Indeed, William Haley, in his urgent...
A stellar opportunity for amateurs Attention amateur astronomers: Bring out your best ideas for stargazing, and you may get to try them on the space telescope. Riccardo Giacconi, director of NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, is offering part of his...
Nippon Professional Baseball decided Wednesday to abolish this year the so-called ''kibo-waku'' system, which allows notable amateur players to designate professional teams they wish to join and vice-versa. Acting Japanese baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro made the announcement to the effect, revising NPB's...
The first of the World Photography Awards, sponsored by Sony Corp., was launched in London on Tuesday as an international showcase of the best images taken by both amateur and professional photographers alike. The competition, which went live at the time of...
