Pass. I don’t even have a reasonable guess.
I’m stumped, too. Pass.
I got nothing. Pass.
EH, you still have one DQ – want to use it to try to shed a little more light on the subject?
A correction to DQ 17: I was a journalist, but am not best known for that. And a clue: I wrote other books, but I’m best known for one specific tome written in the early 1950s.
If anybody wants to unpass before tomorrow morning…
Unlikely, but…
DQ: Are you C. Vann Woodward, historian and author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow?
(Stab in the dark, since I don’t know C. Vann’s gender.)
I am not.
(Neither do I.)
Well, we’ve already had 23 DQs, but if you have no objection, I yield my last remaining DQ to whoever would like to ask it.
EH’s DQ: Was the 1950’s tome related to Science?
No. And I guess I might as well end the game.
I am Amy Vanderbilt, best known for Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette, first published in 1952, since updated, and still in print.
Tome, indeed – the current edition is 800 pages…
OUCH!
I kept thinking Vanderbilt, but kept coming up with Gloria!
Pfui on me. Good job, you, SCAdian.
Don’t think I’d ever heard of her.
They don’t teach etiquette down here.
When I was in high school, the public library had both Vanderbilt (800 pp, current edition) and Emily Post (736 pp). I read them both, cover to cover.
No, I didn’t have a life – why do you ask? 
I am W.
IQs:
- Were you born Allan S. Konigsberg?
- Does a movie title have Julie Newmar thanking you?
- Did you paint “Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1”?
Not Woody Allen.
DQ.
Not James McNeill Whistler.
IQ1: Are you a pro-segregation governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed in 1972?
IQ2: Did you play Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
IQ3: Did King Edward VIII abdicate his throne to marry you?
Not George Wallace.
Not Eli Wallach.
Not Wallis Warfield Simpson.
IQs:
Were you badly defeated at Chickamauga?
Did you joke that you wore Fat Boy jeans as a kid?
Did you figure out your boss had died, even though no one told you directly?
Correct on 1 and 3.
#2: The movie title is To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar. On reflection, though, I’m disallowing my question, since Wong Foo isn’t actually a character in the movie.
IQs:
- Was your last film role the voice of a talking dog in Absolutely Anything?
- Were you Splinter and Topknot’s uncle?
- Did you win the Gershwin Prize a few years ago?