# 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:** 9
**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 14, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/161 "2014-04-14T16:04:29Z")
Didn’t know that Allesandro whatever his last name- was attended. I do remember the nuns always telling us that he truly repented of his crime and was still in prison or at least alive in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/162 "2014-04-14T16:11:17Z")
1. George P. Burdell 2. Penelope Ashe 3. Major William Martin 4. David Manning ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/163 "2014-04-15T06:16:14Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 1. David Manning I’ll take two shots at this one… Peyton and Eli’s successful-at-something-else brother? Or the bishop from Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top”? To clean up from a couple of pages back, Jake Lingle was a Chicago Tribune reporter widely thought to have been on Capone’s payroll till he was violently removed. Another famous Dowson line was “I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! In my fashion”, a reassurance to a woman who wouldn’t have him that he was meanwhile contenting himself strictly with the services of professionals. I’ll be back with a few in a bit. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/164 "2014-04-15T11:40:52Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Peyton and Eli’s successful-at-something-else brother? Or the bishop from Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top”? Nope on both. As a hint: the most recent four I submitted have something in common. ---
**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 15, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/165 "2014-04-15T19:31:09Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 1. George P. Burdell > 2. Penelope Ashe > 3. Major William Martin > 4. David Manning Ask Alan Smithee. 😃 ---
**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 16, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/166 "2014-04-16T06:01:28Z")
I forgot about: 1. Cassie Davis: actress-comedienne with buck teeth and a big but. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/167 "2014-04-16T08:58:30Z")
Ok, sorry for such a long bit. I was quaffing deeply from the champagne flute of life. 1. Ely Parker 2. Paul Whiteman 3. Monk Eastman 4. Frank Harris 5. Manolete 6. Dorothy Richardson The Jack Cole I was thinking of invented Plastic Man, killed himself, drew cartoons for Playboy, and was the subject of a bio by Art Spiegelman (of _Maus_ fame). ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/168 "2014-04-16T13:01:40Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > 1. Paul Whiteman > 2. Frank Harris > 3. Manolete 1. Big band leader, gave Bing Crosby his big break 2. Author of the long banned “My Life and Loves”\* 3. Matador \*Also target of one of Oscar Wilde’s quips. After Harris had been dropping names about the famous people he’d been visiting, Wilde observed, “Frank Harris has been in all the great houses of England – once.” ---
**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 16, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/169 "2014-04-16T16:17:16Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > […] > The Jack Cole I was thinking of invented Plastic Man, killed himself, drew cartoons for Playboy, and was the subject of a bio by Art Spiegelman (of _Maus_ fame). In that order? 😃 Yet ten more: 213. Jesse Unruh 214. Roy Wilkins 215. Louisa Moritz 216. Eero Saarinen 217. Frank Edwards 218. Peggy O’Neil 219. Yaphet Kotto 220. James Baldwin 221. Swede Risberg 222. Alfred Lunt 223. Exapno Mapcase (the original one) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/170 "2014-04-16T16:46:58Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Jesse Unruh > 2. Roy Wilkins > 3. Eero Saarinen > 4. Yaphet Kotto > 5. James Baldwin > 6. Swede Risberg > 7. Alfred Lunt 1. Spree killer, murdered about a dozen people in Hoboken? Camden? (It was somewhere in NJ) 2. Civil rights leader, headed the NAACP from the mid-50s to mid-70s 3. Architect, best known for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis 4. Actor, played the villain in “Live and Let Die” 5. Novelist, works include “Fire on the Mountain” 6. One of the Black Sox 7. Stage (and occasionally movie) actor, partnered with Lynn Fontaine ---
**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 16, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/171 "2014-04-16T17:00:16Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 1. Spree killer, murdered about a dozen people in Hoboken? Camden? (It was somewhere in NJ) > […] Some veteran Republican politicos in Sacramento might agree with you on this one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/172 "2014-04-16T17:01:14Z")
Still in play also: > [@Eutychus](#): > > 1. Bill Roberts (since it may be a fairly common name, I’ll give what he was famous for was circa 1955) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/173 "2014-04-16T17:03:15Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Exapno Mapcase (the original one) Harpo Marx ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/174 "2014-04-16T17:07:22Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Some veteran Republican politicos in Sacramento might agree with you on this one. 😃 Apparently, I ID’d _Howard_ Unruh instead of Jesse Unruh. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/175 "2014-04-16T21:12:12Z")
1. Bo Donaldson 2. Frank Cho 3. Mickey Rapkin 4. Colonel Matt Winn 5. Harold Lipschitz 6. Drew Curtis 7. Larissa Kelly 8. Chiney Ogwumike ---
**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 17, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/176 "2014-04-17T01:00:27Z")
Clear up some outstanding clues 1. Cornell Haynes Rapper Nelly 2. Richard Bright actor, played Al Neri in the three Godfather films. Died a couple years ago, got hit by a bus. 3. Don MacNeil was the long time host of the original Breakfast Club, radio program back in the 1960s. Think it originated in Chicago 4. Mendel Rivers long US Representative from South Carolina, brought home so much defense spending in his district that folks wondered by Charleston Island didn’t sink under the weight of all the military installations on it. 5. Lydia Cornell- you guys can’t forget her, I’ll give you another chance. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/177 "2014-04-17T04:20:53Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Lydia Cornell- you guys can’t forget her, I’ll give you another chance. Busty blonde actress, was on Ted Knight’s sitcom _Too Close For Comfort_. I believe she played one of Ted’s daughters. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/178 "2014-04-17T08:43:53Z")
Peggy O’Neil; Shaw’s girl? Louisa Moritz can’t be the saint, because then it’d be Ste. Moritz, not St. So, I don’t know. Harold Lipschitz…Hal Linden? Bo Donaldson, frontman (if you’ll excuse the anachronism) of the Heywoods. Larissa Kelly, Jeopardy! champ. Bill Roberts, invented the Hula Hoop? The skateboard? The Frisbee? The Twist? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/179 "2014-04-17T13:09:51Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Bill Roberts, invented the Hula Hoop? The skateboard? The Frisbee? The Twist? Nope … it’s not because of anything he created. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/180 "2014-04-17T15:25:04Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Larissa Kelly, Jeopardy! champ. On her original run, we called her “The Machine” at our house because of how she quietly but completely chewed up her opponents. She came in 2nd on her Tournament of Champions appearance (I remember thinking she made a bad bet on the 2nd day Final question). Her husband and sister were also contestants on the show (not sure how her sister did, but her husband was one of the many many victims of Ken Jennings). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=10)