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Surgeon General's Library developed by John Shaw Billings Portrait in the National Library of Medicine by Cecilia Beaux 1895. John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913) was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon [1] who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army.
Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings (April 15, 1916 – May 28, 1981) was an American businessman known for his close and long-time friendship with John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family. Billings was a preparatory school roommate of Kennedy, an usher at his wedding, and a campaigner for his successful 1960 presidential bid.
At time of death, Edward K. Thompson, a following Life managing editor (1949–1961) said of Billings, "He lived his entire life by what landed on his desk. He interpreted the world as something he edited, whether text or pictures. He was an editor's editor." [1]
John Billings may refer to: John Billings (Australian physician) (1918–2007), family planning pioneer; John Shaw Billings (1838–1913), American librarian, building designer, and surgeon; John Shaw Billings (editor) (1891–1975), his grandson, first editor of Life magazine
Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes; December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010) [1] was an American actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in Three Guys Named Mike (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Invaders from Mars (1953), and was featured in the 1957 film The Careless Years opposite Natalie Trundy.
Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life, George M. Smith & Co., 1887, digitized by Digital Scanning Institute, 2001, ISBN 1-58218-628-6, Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: or The Unwritten Story of Army Life Free ebook at Archive.org; Hardtack and Coffee public domain audiobook at LibriVox
John Billingsley (/ ˈ b ɪ l ɪ ŋ ɡ z l i /, born May 20, 1960) [1] is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. Early life and education
John Billings was born in Melbourne and was educated at Xavier College, and at the University of Melbourne where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. [1]In 1953, he began work on a method of natural family planning, involving observation of several indicators of fertility and infertility, gradually focusing on the changes to cervical mucus patterns of sensation.