Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person?

The Game Room
41

I never seem to get in on these in time before they are answered.

  1. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
    Composer of “La Marseillaise”

New ones
42. Bobby Baker
43. Susan Stafford
44. Auguste Rene Chouteau
45. Michael Blasse or Blassie [believe I spelled it correctly]
46. Bert Bell

42
  1. Tracy Emin: British contemporary modern artist – works include her bed and a tent with the names of everyone she’d slept with, the latter of which got destroyed in a warehouse fire
  2. Susan Stafford – Vanna White’s predecessor on Wheel of Fortune
  3. Bert Bell – NFL commissioner before Pete Rozelle (on verification, there was another commissioner between Bell and Rozelle)
43

Here are some more…

  1. Lya Graf
  2. William Obanheim
  3. Ted Shane
  4. Mike Roy
  5. Brad Anderson
44

I’m thinking Bobby Baker had some connection with LBJ, though of course, maybe he didn’t. That’s all I’ve got for now.

45

Indeed. Harlem has been represented by only two congressmen since the early 1940’s… Powell and Rangel. Powell kept on getting trouble with the House ethics committee and lost his chairmanship and then his seat, but kept on coming back.

46
  1. Buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns as the representative for the Vietnam War–until he was identified and was reburied in his hometown cemetery
47

Off the top of my head, Bobby Baker was an aide to LBJ who got caught in the men’s room in a compromising position with another gentleman or gentlemen. Adam Clayton Powell was elected to Congress even after being convicted of some felony or other. Billy Sunday was a baseball player turned evangelist.

Regards,
Shodan

48

I answered one, but didn’t put one out there:

Hollis E. Huntington

49

Nobody got these!

  1. Lya Graf was the small woman plopped onto J. P. Morgan’s lap just as a photographer snapped the shutter, in a famous photo.
  2. This was the Officer Obie from “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”
  3. Ted Shane created crossword puzzles (including Crazy Crosswords) for Dell.
  4. Mike Roy was a chef well-known in the L. A. area.
  5. Brad Anderson created the comic strip “Marmaduke.”

Another ten:
52. Kermit Schafer
53. Jim Piersall
54. Chester Bowles
55. Edy Williams
56. George Woodbridge
57. Daws Butler
58. Willy Ley
59. Dame May Whitty
60. Oren E. Long
61. Dale Messick

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52: Kermit Schaffer - started the “Bloopers” craze for TV and movie mistakes

57: Charles Dawson “Daws” Butler - the voice of many animated characters, most notably, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound

51

53 Jim Piersall
Major League baseball player, subject of the film “Fear Strikes Out” played by Anthony Perkins. Had very serious behavior problems, at least in the movie.

  1. Chester Bowles
    Creator of comic strip Dick Tracy??
52

Um, take a quick look at the Wikipedia entries for “Chester Bowles” and “Dick Tracy.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :smiley:

53

I don’t get the joke. Was it because he was wrong and mistook Chester Bowles for Chester Gould, the guy who did create Dick Tracy?

:confused:

54

YES!!!:smiley:

55

Well, I am glad I was able to make someone laugh today.

How about a couple, three women

  1. Jill Wine-Volner
  2. Jeanette Ranken
  3. Mumtaz

Dale Messick rings a bell, but I can’t place him or her.

56

#64 was the wife of Shah Jehan, ruler of India, and the Taj Mahal is her tomb.

57

Dale Messick is/was indeed a woman: an artist who created the comic strip Brenda Starr.

58

I confess I did not get the Gould-Bowles hilarity either.

Jeannette Ranken (Rankin?): Congresswoman from Montana who “vetoed” US entry in WWI and II, too, I believe.

Dame May Whitty: Actress? and is there an “Edna” in there somewhere? I wouldn’t have bothered to offer such a flimsy guess except I was already answering the Rankin one.

59

You may be thinking of actress Edna Mae Oliver, who appeared in some old Warner Bros. cartoons.

60

Rankin was the 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress.