Walter Howen

Walter Howen, age 70 View Details

Walter Howey

Walter Crawford Howey was a Hearst newspaper editor and the model for Walter Burns, the scheming, ruthless managing editor in Hecht and MacArthur's play The Front Page.

Walter Owen

Walter Owen (1884–1953) was a Scottish translator transplanted to the Argentine Pampas. His career is an example of how the translator can open up a key aspect of a culture to readers in another lanread more...guage. Born in Glasgow, he spent much of his boyhood in Montevideo and as an adult returned to the River Plate area to work as a stockbroker. He thus had the opportunity to become bicultural as well as bilingual, and applied his skill to the translation into English of the major epic poems of the Southern part of South America. In so doing his objective was not simply aesthetic, but cultural and even political in terms of bringing closer together the English-speaking peoples and those of Latin America. As he put it, he hoped that his work "in its modest way may advance between peoples of different speech, the friendly interchange of thought and feeling which is the foundation of mutual esteem and the surest establishment for good fellowship. To have done so is the best reward of the translator."read less...

Walter Owens

Walter Owens was a pitcher and outfielder who played in Negro league baseball. He batted and threw right handed.

Walter Owen Hickson

Walter Owen Hickson was an architect and surveyor based in Nottingham.

W. O. Bentley

Walter Owen Bentley, MBE was an English engineer who founded Bentley Motors Limited in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraread more...ft and automobile engines, Bentley established his own firm in 1919. He built the firm into one of the world's premier luxury and performance auto manufacturers, and led the marque to multiple victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. After selling his namesake company to Rolls-Royce Limited in 1931, he was employed as a designer for Lagonda, Aston Martin, and Armstrong Siddeley.read less...

Walter Howell

Walter Neville Howell is an Australian Olympic medal winning rower. He was born in the state of Victoria and his senior rowing from 1951 was with the Banks Rowing Club in Melbourne. In 1956 he was in read more...the six seat of the Australian boat that won the bronze medal in the eights event of the 1956 Summer Olympics. Four years later in Tokyo he was eliminated with the Australian boat in the repechage of the men's coxed pair event. In 1962 he won a gold medal in the men's VIIIs event at the Perth Commonwealth Games. In 2010 was inducted as a member of the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame.read less...