Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person?

The Game Room
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Earhart’s navigator, no relation to her.

  1. Herbert Huncke

Beat writer and poet, and an inspiration for Jack Kerouac

  1. Letitia Baldridge

Etiquette arbiter

  1. Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet

I’ll add one of my favorite obscure names:

  1. Porfirio Rubirosa
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  1. Porfirio Rubirosa

1960’s playboy/man about town, etc. Cited in a recent thread as the male Paris Hilton of his day.

A trio of era-mates:

  1. Gerald Murphy
  2. Neysa McMein
  3. Carl Van Vechten
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MAD Magazine mentioned Porfirio Rubirosa as a Lothario in the same league as Tommy Manville and Roberto Rosselini.

Dolly Oesterreich was a woman (mentioned in The Book of Lists 3) as a Los Angeles wife with an “attic lover,” whom she was accused of killing (hung jury).

Manning Coles was a novelist.
Jimmy Getzoff was one of Lawrence Welk’s violinists.
Felice Schachter was a teenage actress *(Zapped!) *who later went into the production side, on TV.
John Marsh was an early California settler (about the same time as John Sutter).

Some more:

  1. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (yes, that was his real name)
  2. Alfred J. Reach
  3. Preston Brooks
  4. Cris Alexander
  5. Dr. Peter Goldmark
  6. Lepke Buchalter
  7. Sir Francis Chichester
  8. Dr. James Barry
  9. March Fong Eu
  10. Elsie Hix
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  1. Paracelsus
  2. Murder Inc.
  3. Round the world lone sailor.
  4. Woman Doctor.
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  1. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
    Paracelsus, several-hundred-years-ago scientist, “Beyond Celsus” (an even earlier scientist), and eponym.

  2. Preston Brooks Southern, pro-slavery congressman (in its looser sense; probably a Senator in fact), notorious for caning anti-slavery stalwart Charles Sumner.

  3. Lepke Buchalteraka Louis Lepke, of Murder, Inc.

Too slow with a couple, but not going to waste my hard work.

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You’re batting 1.000. :slight_smile:

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I only know 6 so far, but Guillaume Apollinaire is the reason I knew right away Doper Colibri was a bird man, even though I knew nothing of that genus.

Guillaume Apollinaire is one of my favorite poets. (I’ve translated two of his poems into English in renditions I think are better than those found on-line. ;))

I first heard of Colibri from “Zone”, one of his most famous poems:

…
L’oiseau Roc célébré par les conteurs et les poètes
Plane tenant dans les serres le crâne d’Adam la première tête
L’aigle fond de l’horizon en poussant un grand cri
Et d’Amérique vient le petit colibri
De Chine sont venus les pihis longs et souples
Qui n’ont qu’une seule aile et qui volent par couples
…

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Could he fly? :smiley:

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  1. Richard C. Hottelet – was he an NBC news correspondent 40-50 years ago?
  2. Billy Sunday – evangelist 100 years ago
  3. Bob Wills – oh yeah. He was country waaaay before country was cool
  4. Adam Clayton Powell – Who loves ya baby? Harlem congressman before Rangel
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  1. Inventor of the LP
  2. Yachtsman, sailed solo around the world in the mid-60s, knighted by QE2
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  1. American expatriate in France, host for ‘Lost Generation’ figures
  2. Artist, occasional member of the Algonquin Round Table
  3. Portrait photographer, associated with the Harlem Renaissance
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And to throw in some new ones…

  1. Joshua A. Norton
  2. Grace Bedell
  3. Virginia O’Hanlon
  4. Norma McCorvey
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  1. Joshua A. Norton - A mid-19th century business man in San Francisco that went insane (I believe it had to do with some speculation that went incredibly awry). He then put on a cape, proclaimed himself Emperor and then took then rambled through the streets of SF doing a Professor Irwin Corey impersonation.

(When I was in college, my history prof had a “thing” for Emperor Norton.)

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  1. Emperor Norton of San Francisco in the 19th Century; a commodity speculator who went bonkers when his investment tanked and decided he was Emperor of the United States.

  2. A little girl in western New York State who wrote a letter to Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in 1860, convincing him to grow a beard.

  3. A little girl who wrote to the New York Sun in 1897: “Is There a Santa Claus?”
    Sorry, I don’t know No. 35.

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He was the voice of Saudi Arabia/OPEC in the 1970s-1980s in regards to oil issues. Don’t recall if he was the titular head of OPEC, or just their PR wing, or somewhere in between, but he appeared on TV a lot.

Fred Noonan rings a bell, but can’t place him. Peggy Noonan’s dad? :wink:

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She was also one of the students in the first season of The Facts of Life, before they trimmed it to Blair / Tootie / Natalie / Jo.

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The ‘Roe’ of Roe v. Wade. (And for fun, here’s Row v. Wade.)

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“Keep the faith, baby” (“who loves ya?” was Kojak). And Adam Clayton Powell Jr, to be precise. Senior and Junior presided in turn over the flock at Abyssinian Baptist church, which at one time was the largest Protestant congregation in the country.

  1. Sherman Billingsley
  2. Peter Revson
  3. Walter Lord
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  1. Operated the Stork Club in NYC
  2. Revlon cosmetics heir turned race car driver
  3. Author of “A Night to Remember” about the Titanic
    New ones:
  4. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
  5. Mal Evans
  6. Tracy Emin
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  1. Mal Evans: Along with Neil Aspinall, longtime Beatles’ roadie. Died in the 1970’s; killed while taking part in a robbery?