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profile name: Nat King Cole
profile occupation: Film Actor, Television Actor, Pianist, Singer, Television Personality
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profile name: Martha Gellhorn
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profile name: Richard Feynman
profile occupation: Academic, Inventor, Physicist
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profile name: William Schuman
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