(1893-1972) US newspaper columnist. Working for the Hearst syndicate, she moved to Hollywood 1925 and began a gossip column and a popular radio program Hollywood Hotel 1934. For over 40 years she exerted great influence (some damaging) over the lives of stars and studios. She published her memoirs as The Gay Illiterate 1944 and Tell It to Louella 1961.
Born in Freeport, Illinois, US, Parsons began her newspaper career in Dixon, Illinois, soon after high school. In 1914 she moved to Chicago and worked as a reporter for the Tribune and Record-Herald, where she wrote a regular movie column. Parsons was hired by the New York Morning Telegraph 1918 before joining the Hearst syndicate.

3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) Irish astronomer, engineer, and politician who built the largest telescope then in use. He found 15 spiral nebulae and named the Crab nebula. He was among the first to take photographs of the Moon.
Parsons was born in York and studied at Oxford. As the eldest son of a titled landowner, he was elected to Parliament while still an undergraduate to represent King's County, a seat he then held for 13 years. In 1831 he became Lord Lieutenant of County Offaly, and in 1841, on the death of his father, he entered the House of Lords. During and after the potato famine of 1846, Parsons worked to alleviate the living conditions of his tenants.
Determined to construct a large telescope, Parsons learned to cast and grind mirrors. Fourteen years after his experiments began, he was able to make a 92-cm/36-in solid mirror, and in 1842 he cast the “Leviathan of Parsonstown”, a disc 1.8 m/72 in in diameter which weighed nearly 4 metric tons and was incorporated into a telescope with a focal length of 16.2 m/54 ft. It took three years to put together. He also invented a clockwork drive for the large equatorial mounting of an observatory.

(1902-1979) US sociologist who attempted to integrate all the social sciences into a science of human action. He was converted to functionalism under the influence of the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski.
In The Social System 1951, Parsons argued that the crucial feature of societies, as of biological organisms, is homeostasis (maintaining a stable state), and that their parts can be understood only in terms of the whole.
Parsons began his career as a biologist and later became interested in economics and sociology. He studied in Heidelberg, Germany. He taught sociology at Harvard from 1931 until his death, and set up the Department of Social Relations there. He published more than 150 books and articles.
Like the German sociologist Max Weber, whose work he translated, Parsons wanted to describe convincingly logical types of social relation applicable to all groups, however small or large. His great achievement was to construct a system or general theory of social action to include all its aspects, drawing on several disciplines and reinterpreting previous theories. His first attempt at this systematization appeared in The Structure of Social Action 1937, followed by Essays in Sociological Theory, Pure and Applied 1942.

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