chimp that used to appear with Dave Garroway on the Today Show
announcer and sidekick on the Garry Moore show. Threatened to sue The Bullwinkle Show because Rocky and Bullwinkle were looking for someone named Kirwood Derby.
Not exactly. The Kirwood Derby was a hat that made its wearer the smartest person alive.
Further trivia: J. Fred Muggs’ partner, a female chimp, was named Phoebe B. Beebe.
Pegler said that Reynolds “had an overhanging belly filled with something other than guts” and that Reynolds “proposed to Heywood Broun’s widow on the way from Broun’s grave”! Reynolds won the suit, for $175,001.
- Jack Pearl was a radio comedian who would ask people, “Wanna buy a duck?”
Leftovers:
Takeshi Takarabe was a pre-WWII chief admiral of the Japanese Navy.
From Kermit Schafer again: an interviewer asked him:
“Tommy, you’ve been married eight or nine times. How do you remember your wives?”
Manville answered, “Oh, I remember them by the parts I like best!”
- William Dawes
Made a midnight ride with Paul Revere.
Re: Maria Goretti, murdered around the age of 11. She is thought to be the only Roman Catholic saint whose canonization service was attended by her mother.
No, that was Joe Penner, whose other catchphrase was “You naaasty man!”
Jack Pearl was a comic best known for his “Baron Munchausen” character, and the catchphrase “Vas you dere, Sharlie?” (My father used to use this one.)
Leon Hart played End (TE/WR/flanker sort of thing?) for Notre Dame, winning the Heisman trophy.
Charles George Gordon, Lord Byron.
John Facenda, the “Voice of God”…and NFL films. From Philadelphia.
A Sarnoff founded RCA, but I don’t know about the Bobby part.
MEA CULPA!! :o I should have known better. You are right.
Remember who said, “Who’s Yahoodi?”
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Bela Blasko
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Creighton Tull Chaney
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William Henry Pratt
No, he was George Gordon Byron.
Boris Karloff
Well, with that hint…i’ll guess Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney for the other two.
Low-hanging fruit tastes the sweetest.
ETA: I wrote that last sentence because it sounded good and I hoped it was true. But according to this, it isn’t.
- British general, known as “Chinese” Gordon, killed in the siege of Khartoum
Right. With that I’ll ID my #104, since his story is tied up with that of Gordon.
German doctor and naturalist. Governor of the province of Equatoria in southern Sudan when he was cut off by the Mahdi’s rebellion (in which Gordon died). “Rescued” by Henry Morton Stanley in an expedition up the Congo in which 2/3 of the party died, even though he didn’t want to be rescued.
Another bunch:
- Jerry Colonna (he’s the one who would mention Yahoodi)
- Herb Washington
- Jacob Javits
- Josif Vissiaronovich Dzugashvili
- Cassie Davis
- Lauren Hutton
- Miss Toni Fisher
- Sergio Aragones Domenech
- Harlan Fiske Stone
- Charles Goren
- Janet Guthrie
- Ja’net DuBois
Comic with a big moustache and googly eyes, Bob Hope sidekick.
Longtime Senator from New York
Better known as Joseph Stalin.
Mad cartoonist, Spy vs Spy
Supreme Court judge
Bridge expert and columnist.
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Herb Washington
designated base runner for Oakland A’s in the 1970s -
Jacob Javits
long-time US Senator from New York -
Josif Vissiaronovich Dzugashvili
Joseph Stalin -
Lauren Hutton
model and actress -
Sergio Aragones Domenech
another Mad magazine artist -
Harlan Fiske Stone
Supreme Court Justice -
Charles Goren
Bridge maven [the card game] -
Janet Guthrie
first female Indy 500 racer -
Ja’net DuBois
played Winnoa on TV show Good Times
Calling “time’s up” on a couple after 48 hours…
Joyce Johnson was Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend and an award-winning author herself (granted, it was for writing about having been Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend). Checking her Wikipedia page, it seems that I’ve met her son.
Laura Zametkin (maiden name) was better known as Laura Z. Hobson, author of Gentleman’s Agreement.
Btw, Sergio Aragones drew the marginal cartoons, among other features, in MAD, but the Spy vs. Spy guy was Antonio Prohias.
- Jack Cole
- Sax Rohmer
- Ernest Dowson
Creator of Fu Manchu
- Bill Roberts (since it may be a fairly common name, I’ll give what he was famous for was circa 1955)
- Singer; big hit was “The Big Hurt”
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- Ernest Dowson
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- Poet; Margaret Mitchell took the phrase “Gone with the Wind” from one of his works
Her canonization was also attended by her murderer (who had gotten religion and after his release from prison became a lay brother at a monestary) which has to be a pretty rare event as well.