# Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 23, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341 "2014-03-23T05:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/101 "2014-04-10T22:10:21Z")
1. Tenzing Norghay Gurka, accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary to Mt Everest 2. Buddy Blattner Big Band Leader?? 3. John L. Lewis Long time head of the United Mine Workers 4. June Foray Cartoon voices: Rocket J Squirrel, Judy Jetson, Natasha Fatale, et al 5. Patty Deutsch Adenoidal actress, did commercials in 1970s 6. Michael DeBakey Performed first human heart transplant 7. Carl Icahn Corporate raider; hope he lost a lot of money when Blockbuster fell 8. Achmed Sukarno Indonesian Dictator in the 1960s ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/102 "2014-04-11T01:44:29Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Asgeir Asgeirsson I’ll say Ole Olsen again. It’s bound to be right eventually. Patty Deutsch, Doris Day. Walker Smith, I believe, was Sugar Ray Robinson, of 289 W 238th Street, the Bronx (now a parking lot). ETA: Oh, Deutsch has been answered. Either I’m wrong, then, or 5-time is trying to highlight some of the less celebrated aspects of Ms. Deutsch’s career. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/103 "2014-04-11T03:37:48Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Ngaio Marsh New Zealand mystery writer. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/104 "2014-04-11T04:40:52Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Tenzing Norghay > Gurka, accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary to Mt Everest > > 2. Buddy Blattner > Big Band Leader?? > […] Tenzing Norkhay was the _Sherpa_ who accompanied Hillary on his climb. Buddy Blattner shared the mike for Angel games on the radio (KMPC-710 AM), in the early years; he was soon, mercifully, replaced by Dick Enberg. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/105 "2014-04-11T04:49:19Z")
That last post should haver read that Blattner shared the mike with Don Wells. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/106 "2014-04-11T05:48:02Z")
Should I reveal who Einar Gustafson was? (#86) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/107 "2014-04-11T22:47:19Z")
Go ahead. Asgeir Asgeirsson was a president of Iceland. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/108 "2014-04-12T00:41:10Z")
Einar Gustafson was the “Jimmy” in Jimmy Fund. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/109 "2014-04-12T02:45:16Z")
D’oh yeah, I guess a sherpa would be a much better mountain climber than a Gurkha. Can’t recall Doris Day’s real name at the moment, but Patty Deutsch did commercials and appeared on game shows. She had a very nasally voice that she described as “sounding like a 14 year old boy with problems.” And _Jules_ Blattner is a local St Louis musician, played with Chuck Berry. But never quite made the big time. And 44. Auguste Rene Chouteau was one of the founders of the City of St Louis, which recently celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/110 "2014-04-12T03:35:37Z")
1. Terry Kath 2. Conrad Janis 3. Bobby Troup 4. Herman Talmadge 5. Charlotte Corday 6. McGeorge Bundy 7. Mercedes Jellinik 8. Samuel Gompers 9. Abe Bekela [not sure if the spelling is correct, but sounds like Ah-bay Bah-kee-la] 10. Eugenio Pacelli ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/111 "2014-04-12T03:53:57Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Charlotte Corday Assassin of Marat, French Revolutionary figure. > [@](#): > > 1. McGeorge Bundy Aide to John F. Kennedy and Johnson > [@](#): > > 1. Samuel Gompers Labor leader, founder of AFL ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/112 "2014-04-12T03:54:45Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Eugenio Pacelli Pope Pius XII ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/113 "2014-04-12T03:58:25Z")
A few more: 1. Lou Sockalexis 2. Dummy Hoy 3. Chief Bender ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/114 "2014-04-12T05:09:32Z")
Doris Day was born Doris von Kappelhoff. > [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Terry Kath > 2. Conrad Janis > 3. Bobby Troup > 4. Herman Talmadge > 5. Charlotte Corday > 6. McGeorge Bundy > 7. Mercedes Jellinik > 8. Samuel Gompers > 9. Abe Bekela [not sure if the spelling is correct, but sounds like Ah-bay Bah-kee-la] > 10. Eugenio Pacelli Conrad Janis is a stage actor who appeared in the play “Same Time Next Year?” with Joyce Van Patten. Boibby Troup was a bandleader, who married Julie London; he also appeared as Dr. Joe Early in\* Emergency!,\* produced by Jack Webb, who was also married to Julie London (not at the same time!) **To Colibiri:** Louis Sockalexis was the first “native American” (Penobscot) to play major-league baseball. He discovered whiskey, however, and faded after a few years. “Dummy” Hoy was the first deaf-mute to play in the majors; some say the umpire’s custom of raising the right arm to signal a strike originated when Hoy, who could not hear, requested that the umpire give a visible signal. “Chief” Bender, a Mission Indian, pitched for Connie Mack’s A’s from about 1904 to 1914, when he jumped to the Federal League. Now here are a few more of mine: 1. Nick Meglin 2. Charles Arthur Floyd 3. Scatman Crothers 4. Vladimir K. Zworykin 5. Dr. Carl A. Weiss 6. Robert Schuller 7. John Fitch ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/115 "2014-04-12T05:58:04Z")
1. MAD magazine artist or writer. 2. Pretty boy, bank robber. 3. The other Father of Television. 4. Huey Long’s assassin. Also treated Ernest Hemingway, or maybe Joe E. Lewis (the danger of reading two books at the same time manifests itself). Or maybe just a friend of one of them. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/116 "2014-04-12T06:04:37Z")
1. Lester Gillis 2. Joyce Johnson 3. Wally Wood 4. Sylvia Beach 5. Earl Derr Biggers 6. Laura Zametkin ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/117 "2014-04-12T06:33:20Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Abe Bekela [not sure if the spelling is correct, but sounds like Ah-bay Bah-kee-la] I’m guessing this is Abebe, um, Bah-kee-la, who won two Olympic marathons; once barefoot and once shod. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/118 "2014-04-12T11:23:39Z")
121: The original guitarist for Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/119 "2014-04-12T13:42:44Z")
1. Herman Talmadge Governor of Georgia. 1. Scatman Crothers Actor, _The Shining_ is his most famous role. 1. Robert Schuller Wrote religious books - Christian Cathedral guy? (Yes, to all three.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/120 "2014-04-12T16:47:20Z")
1. Baby Face Nelson, gangster and psychopath. 2. Wally Wood was a famous comic artist. He worked on _T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents_, several collections of which I own. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=7)