Volume 9

The man behind the development of the Ford Mustang.

Born to a school principal and a teacher, Loomis loved books, explaining upon his retirement, “I was able to associate with great minds through their books.” He made that his profession, working directly with the “great minds” as a book editor. He was hired at Random House in 1957, and worked with some of the … Read more

Givens grew up in Richmond, Virginia. At age 14 he was at a party when he spotted a girl. As he was working up his courage to ask her to dance, a man burst into the room “looking for someone” — and shooting a gun randomly; the girl was killed. Givens decided that such killers … Read more

Causi was “one of the best sports photographers in New York City, capturing all the major moments of the past 25 years,” says Stephen Lynch, editor in chief of the New York Post, where Causi worked. Even better, the teams he covered loved him too: “Anthony was a great, funny and awesome guy to talk to and … Read more

Born in Pittsburgh, Jesdanun grew up in New Jersey. After finishing school at Swarthmore College in 1991, he got a job with the Associated Press, a cooperative news organization that supplies news outlets with stories. He was the first at AP — in the year 2000 — to get the title “Internet Writer”: he covered … Read more

After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, Glickman, a mother of three and a schoolteacher in a suburb of Los Angeles, wrote a letter to the author of the biggest-circulation cartoon strip in newspapers of the day, Peanuts’ Charles Schulz, suggesting that it was time for “the introduction of Negro children into … Read more

Born near the ocean in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Luna discovered early on that she was a great swimmer: she completed her Red Cross lifeguard training by age 8. After working in her father’s jewelry store and as a swimming instructor, she returned to school at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia — the National Institute of … Read more

A photographer, Yaro had a part-time job with the Los Angeles Times, Yaro had gone home not feeling well, but Pepto Bismol perked him up, so he grabbed his camera and headed out. Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California Primary for nomination as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, and Yaro, still … Read more

The namesake for the “Rosie” cultural icon.

Born in San Diego, Coulombe served a stint in the U.S. Air Force, and then earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from Stanford. He got a job at the Rexall drug store chain, where in 1958 he was tasked to launch “Pronto Markets” in southern California — a chain of small stores … Read more