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James Dunn is a geographer who began exploring the Northwest Territories in 1977. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in geography from the University of Colorado, and is currently the geographer for Britannica Educational Corporation. Dunn designed Arctic Field Research, a senior-level field geography course set in the Canadian Arctic, and taught from 1987 to 1993 through the University of Colorado. His research interests include the importance of field education in polar geography, the design of geography instructional materials, and world issues in geographic study. Dunn has co-authored a set of 20 books on world issues with a grant from the National Science Foundation and published by Brittanica.
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James Dunn is an independent commentator and finance journalist with the Weekend Australian and Sunday Mail. He is currently the co-host of the breakfast programme on 3AK Melbourne and is Australian business correspondent for Newstalk ZB in New Zealand, reporting daily. He is ... an occasional commentator on SBS & Channel 7 News. James has recently released 'Share Investing for Dummies' through John Wiley & Co and is currently working on 'Super for Dummies' which is due for release in early to mid 2003. He is an excellent speaker with a skill for making the complex world of the sharemarket accessible to all.
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Following the divorce from his first wife, in 1926 Sir James Dunn married Irene Clarice Richards, the former wife of the Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry. The 1928 death of his daughter Mona Dunn from his first marriage sent him into a state of depression and for a time he thought about cutting back on his business activities and returning home to his native New Brunswick. However, in 1929, his new wife gave birth to a daughter, Anne, who lifted his spirits a great deal. Anne Dunn grew up to be an artist, studying under Henry Moore and in Paris, France with Fernand Léger and at the Académie Julian. Nevertheless, Dunn and his second wife divorced in 1942 following which he married his long-time personal secretary, Marcia Anastasia Christoforides. Although thirty-six years his junior, “Christofor” as she was nicknamed, was very bright, intensely loyal, and a devoted partner.
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Synopsis: One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is aRead More
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An agreeable juvenile lead who managed to shift into a convincing career in character parts, James Dunn was born in Harlem and started his professional life selling lunch wagons to vendors in New Rochelle, New York. Overtaken by the acting bug, he began getting bit parts at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s. In 1930 he appeared in two Broadway shows, "The Nightstick" and Helen Morgan's "Sweet Adeline". Signed by Fox in 1931, he made 22 films for them (and several loan-outs) in five years....
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Synopsis: While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful Sally Brent (Sally Eilers. Though Sally (Eilers) promises to be faithful after Jimmy (Dunn) ships out to San Francisco, Jimmy becomes jealous. Furious at the news that Sally hasRead More
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