Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person?

The Game Room
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New ones…

  1. Gregorio Fuentes
  2. Jean Vander Pyl
  3. Bertha Pappenheim
  4. John Cairncross
  5. Ken Weatherwax
  6. Robbie Ross
  7. Thomas Arne
  8. Thelma Furness
  9. Ernie Bushmiller
  10. Christopher Cockerell
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  1. “Fifth Man” in the Cambridge commie spy ring
  2. Wrote “Nancy” comic strip
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  1. Wilma Flintstone’s voice
  2. Pugsley on The Addams Family
    To answer 5 Time champ and Sean Factotum:
  3. Yes
  4. Close but no cigar. That was Louis Daguerre.
  5. Yes. Rasputin was a “pen” name meaning “profligate” or “libertine”; such he was.
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  1. June Cochran was a Playmate in the early 60s. Seductive eyes.

  2. Doug Storer was something of a Robert Ripley clone but published books with lots of photographs instread of drawings.
    Some more…

  3. Kay Kyser

  4. Paul de Kruif

  5. Juan Vicente Gomez

  6. Philip DeCatesby Ball

  7. Tycho Brahe

  8. John Cleland

  9. Amanda Blake

  10. Wallis Warfield Simpson

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  1. Kay Kyser
    Kay Kayser big band leader College of Musical Knowledge

  2. Tycho Brahe
    amateur astronomer, had a metallic nose [gold, bronze or copper?] made astronomical observations for a number of years that were put to very good use by another name that could be used in our little game.

  3. John Cleland
    writer of Fanny Hill

  4. Amanda Blake
    Miss Kitty of the Long Branch Saloon on Gunsmoke

  5. Wallis Warfield Simpson
    Edward VIII gave of the throne for her

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I once read about a debased coin during the reign of Henry VIII, a shilling or some such; it was silver-plated copper. The silver plating was so thin that it wore off easily on the king’s nose and people referred to Henry (not to his face, of course) as “Old Coppernose.” :smiley:

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Nobody knew these?
Paul de Kruif was a science writer.
Juan Vicente Gomez was a dictatorial ruler of Venezuela, long before Hugh Chavez.
Phil Ball bought the St. Louis Browns after World War I.

Let’s try it again.

  1. Alex Dreier
  2. Ralph Williams
  3. Bucky Walters
  4. Marian Anderson
  5. Pauline Esther Friedman
  6. Zito Francescatti
  7. Tupou IV
  8. O. A. “Bum” Phillips
  9. Luther Burbank
  10. Paul Gallico
209
  1. Football coach
  2. Author, wrote Thomasina, among other things
210

Pauline Friedman, I think, was Dear Abby and Esther was Ann Landers. So each had the other’s first name as her own middle? I guess I’d forgotten that.

Bucky Walters managed the Cincinnati Reds, probably to their 1940 World Championship.

Higgledy-piggledy
Marian Anderson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Asked to perform

(Unconstitutional
Hall having reckoned her
Coloratura not
Up to the norm).

Luther Burbank grew fruit in California before it was popular to.

211

  1. King of Tonga
    And to clear up some leftovers…

  2. Gregorio Fuentes: First mate of Ernest Hemingway’s boat ‘Pilar,’ alleged inspiration for ‘The Old Man and the Sea’

  3. Bertha Pappenheim: As ‘Anna O,’ early patient of Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud; later became a Jewish feminist and crusader against trafficking in women

  4. Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde’s ‘first boy’ and literary executor

  5. Thomas Arne: Composer of ‘Rule Britannia’

  6. Thelma Furness: Socialite; pre-Wallis Simpson mistress of Edward VIII; identical twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria Vanderbilt of designer jeans fame)

  7. Christopher Cockerell: Inventor of the hovercraft