Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person?

The Game Room
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Nobody knew these?

Edy Williams: 70s starlet
George Woodbridge:* MAD* artist
Willy Ley: Science writer
Oren E. Long–Senator from Hawaii

Here’s another ten:

  1. Johnny Gilbert
  2. Winston Sharples
  3. Richard Feynman
  4. Gladys Towles Root
  5. Alfred Krupp
  6. Bob Fothergill
  7. Morganna Roberts
  8. Curtis LeMay
  9. Morris Bishop
  10. Ralph Bunche
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Feyman was a idiosyncratic mathematician.
Lemay was a Cold War General
Krupp worked with the Nazis, armaments I believe
Johnny Gilbert was a game show announcer
Bunche helped found the UN, 1st African-American to win Nobel Peace Prize.

63

Getting easier here (not that I’m complaining).

  1. Longtime “Jeopardy” announcer. Unless that’s Johnny Olsen. In which case, never mind my first comment. John Gilbert was the classic silent star who couldn’t make it in talkies, but I never heard anyone call him “Johnny”.
  2. Legendary physicist, 1922-somewhere around 1989.
  3. Iron worker. Or “workser”.
  4. Buxom kisser of baseball players.
  5. WWII B-29 fleet commander who later endorsed North Vietnam’s return to the Stone Age*, and George Wallace’s 1968 running mate?
  6. Spingarn medalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and namesake of a very small park outside the UN complex in NYC.

I’ll add a few later/tomorrow.

  • Either that, or the guy who said “let’s declare victory and get the hell out of there”.
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Winston Sharples was a music composer for some older animation studios. He was basically the Carl Stalling for the Van Bueren and Fleischer studios.

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  1. Gladys Towles Root was a defense attorney in Los Angeles, well known for her courtroom style and her hats.
  2. Bob Fothergill played for the Tigers and the White Sox when Ty Cobb’s career was winding down. He was heavy-set but a good hitter; Leo Durocher once saw him at bat and protested, “Both those men can’t bat at once!”
  3. Morris Bishop was a writer better known in the 60s.

My high-school French teacher (2d, 3d, 4th years) said he earned a Bronze Star in World War II–he captured Alfred Krupp. :slight_smile:

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Here’s a few:

  1. Norman Zamcheck
  2. Herve Filion
  3. Lou Adler
  4. Norma Kuzma
  5. Elisha Kane
  6. Janis Eddy Fink
  7. Ernest Giuseppe Anastasio III
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  1. 1970s Record Executive

  2. Jill Wine-Volner, along with Richard Ben-Veniste, [who would have been another good name for this game] prosecuted the original Watergate burglars.

  • Sen George Aiken of Vermont thought the United States “should declare victory, and get the hell out.”
68
  1. Larry Groce
  2. Cornell Haynes
  3. Stephanie Germanotta
  4. Richard Bright
  5. Herman Hollerith [think it is spelled correctly]
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  1. Invented tabulating machine many consider to be among the first computers, saved the (iirc) 1880 census.
70

Lady Gaga.

71
  1. Arnold Cream
  2. Joe Barrow
  3. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod

Regards,
Shodan

72

Mata Hari

73
  1. Norma Kuzma, alias Christine Knudsen (from a friend’s borrowed driver’s license), *alias *Traci Lords.

Just guessing at 79…news anchor Ernie Anastos, who gave a new meaning to “KFC” (according to the top-rated youtube comment on his most famous TV performance?).

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Yes to Traci, and a BIIIIIG no to Ernie Anastos. Way off.

75
  1. Einar Gustafson
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You’re thinking of Walter Jenkins. Bobby Baker was an aide of Johnson’s while he was in Congress and later VP who resigned after a bribery scandal.

Powell was a longtime congressman from Harlem. He was denied his seat by a vote of the House due to a corruption investigation, but was re-elected to the seat in the next election.

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I guess I’ll just have to keep fucking that chicken, then. Ernesto Guevara? Albert Anastasia? Meanwhile…

  1. Clay Allison
  2. Jake Lingle
  3. V.H. Kaltenborn
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Ernesto was better known as Che, the Cuban revolutionary.

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Here are some obscure ones:
90. Chuck Southcott
91. Wally Moon
92. Tom Koch
93. David L. Lander
94. Frank Sprague
95. Robert Sherwood
96. Kathleen Brown Rice
97. Nana Moluskouri
98. Isaac Bashevis Singer
99. B. Gratz Brown
100. Marc Connelly

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  1. Playwright (The Petrified Forest, Idiot’s Delight), also author of the historical Roosevelt and Hopkins
  2. Singer
  3. Nobel Prize winning author (not all that obscure), writing in Yiddish.
  4. Also a playwright (Green something or other?) and, also like Sherwood, identified with the Algonquin Roundtable set.

A couple more are bothering me, but I’m used to that by now.