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...interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy. Her acceptance speech began: "At last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 26, 2004 | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...plunging bank stocks?sent the Nikkei average to its lowest level in 19 years on Sept. 3. That's a big problem for the banks, because they hold mountains of shares in Japanese firms. As their value evaporates, so do bank assets, ultimately threatening solvency. According to Brett Hemsley of Fitch Ratings in Tokyo, if stocks drop about another 11%, the shakiest institutions will risk breaching a key requirement for how much capital they need to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming in Debt | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

Freshman midfielder John Hemsley scored at the start of the second quarter to give Fairfield a 4-2 lead. The Crimson's Sprong scored two goals and the Stags's Scipioni and Steele accounted for two more before the half...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 5 Duke Hands No. 13 M. Lax First Loss of Season | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain the UPN lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

Additionally, the Hurricanes were the only team to have two starters on the First Team All-Big East Team, with James and junior guard Johnny Hemsley earning the honors. James also earned co-Big Player of the Year hon- 7 PEREZ

Author: By Richard A. Perez, | Title: Hurricanes Ready For Storm | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

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