Cotton Hawes was a slightly later addition to the cast of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct detective series. Hawes, named by his religious father after Cotton Mather, is tall, good-looking, and red-haired, with a white streak in his hair. This was caused when his head was slashed by a building superintendent – the hair, after being shaved to stitch up the wound, grew back white. Originally from a “posh” uptown precinct, his attitude did not endear him to his new colleagues at the 87th on his first few days there and nearly got both himself and Carella blown away. Chastened and sobered by the experience, he finally settled in as part of the 87th’s Detective Squad, and became extremely competent at his job.
Author Salvatore Lombino legally changed his name to Evan Hunter and wrote The Blackboard Jungle. Under the pen name Ed McBain he wrote the 87th Precinct novels.
The first half of the book Candyland was written by Evan Hunter. The second half was written by Ed McBain.
And it was extremely well done.
NM, ninja’d.
The first name Increase, such as of Increase Mather, can be a literal translation of the Hebrew name “Yosëf” (Joseph). The name Joseph comes from the Hebrew verb יוסף (or יהוסף; “yasap”) meaning to add, increase, or repeat.
The most famous Joseph in the bible is the patriarch described in the book of Genesis. Joseph was the 11th of the 12 sons of Jacob, or Israel, and he is the first son of Rachel and Jacob. Jacob had these 12 sons by his two wives, Leah and Rachel (two daughters of Laban, younger and older, respectively), and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.
The 12 sons of Israel (or, Jacob) define the 12 tribes of Israel. Those tribes/sons are, in birth order: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah (by Leah), Dan and Naphtali (by Bilhah, handmaiden of Rachel who claimed them as her own), Gad and Asher (by Zilpah, handmaiden of Leah, who claimed them as her own), and Issachar and Zebulun (again by Leah), and Joseph and Benjamin (by Rachel).
Jacob’s only daughter mentioned in Genesis is Dinah. Dinah was the daughter of Leah.
Laurie Beechman, who won a Tony nomination for her role as the narrator in the 1982 original Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat replaced Betty Buckley as Grizabella in the Broadway production of Cats, and played the role for over four years.
Oliver Smith has been nominated for the Tony award 25 times, and won it ten times, for his scenic designs, from 1957 to 1974. He is by far the most accomplished person from my home town, but few people there (or anywhere) have ever heard of him.
Theatrical producer Hal Prince has earned twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year’s Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards.
Singer and musician Prince (1958-2016, R.I.P.) had 21 shows in London in 2007 and they all sold out. Tickets were all priced at £31.21, worth about $55.00 US, in 2006 exchange values. That is worth about $75.00 in today’s US dollars - a very reasonable concert ticket price. The £31.21 ticket price was a reference to his album titled 3121 that was released in 2006.
Prince also has his own brand of perfume, also named 3121, that was released in 2007.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera began previews at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End on September 27, 1986, then opened on October 9th. It has made more money than any show or movie ever, even when adjusted for inflation.
In Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera book, (1910, Le Fantôme de l’Opéra) the phantom’s first name is Erik.
The Erik Nielsen airport in Whitehorse, Yukon, is named for the long-time member of the Canadian Parliament for the constituency of Yukon. Nielsen,who was born in Saskatchewan, held his seat in the Commons for 30 years.
The ALCAN Highway (or Alaska Highway) runs 1,365 miles from Dawson Creek BC CAN to Delta Junction AK USA via Whitehorse YT CAN. Whitehorse is about 850 miles from Dawson Creek. Proposals for the ALCAN began roughly in the 1920s and received quite a kick of urgency after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941:
Feb 1942: construction approval from the US Army was received
Mar 1942: official construction began
Oct 1942: the route was completed
Nov 1942: the route was dedicated
Fred Rose was the only communist to be elected to federal office in North America. He was elected in a bye-election to the Canadian Parliament, for the Quebec constituency of Cartier, and then re-elected in the general election in 1945, as a Liberal-Progressive, since the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1941… He was then accused and convicted of espionage, and sentenced to prison for one day longer than that necessary for removal from Parliament. When released after four years, it was impossible for him to get a job, he went to Poland, and his Canadian citizenship was revoked. As a Member of Parliament, Rose proposed the first medicare legislation and the first anti-hate legislation.
Dalton Trumbo took his anti-war novel “Johnny Got His Gun” out of print when the Communist Party told him they now wanted the USA to help save Joe Stalin’s ass.
The Communist Party of Canada was subsequently un-banned (I wonder if mods have that power? 
). It has not won any further federal seats, but it did re-register with Elections Canada. Then in 1993, it failed to meet the requirement that it field at least 50 seats in the general election, and it was de-registered, along with the right-wing Social Credit Party, which similarly failed to meet that requirement. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada challenged the 50 seat requirement as infringing the right to vote under the Charter. The Supreme Court of Canada agreed with the argument and struck down the 50 seat requirement: Figueroa v. Canada (Attorney General).
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, had a Communist Party alderman in the city council for more than 25 years.
In the November 1933 election, Jacob Penner topped all vote-getters in the city’s North End to win election, assuming his seat on January 2, 1934. Penner would be regularly re-elected as a Winnipeg alderman, holding the position until 1960. Penner thereby became the longest serving elected Communist alderman in North America.
Roland Penner, son of Jacob Penner, served during WWII in Europe as an artilleryman. He, too, held ties to the communist party. Because of his background in communist politics, Penner was for many years forbidden from entering the United States of America under the McCarran-Walter Act, also known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. It was named after its sponsors, Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), and Congressman Francis Walter (D-Pennsylvania). President Truman vetoed the bill, but his veto was overturned by the House and Senate.
The international airport at Las Vegas is named after Senator McCarran.
Unde the McCarfren-Walter Act, Pierre Trudeau was denied entry into the United States, ostensibly because he had attended an international economic conference in Moscow. As were several Nobel Prize winners including Doris Lessing, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Daniel Fo.
Although Roland Penner, former Communist, was initially denied entry to the US under the McCarfen-Walter Act, special arrangements were made to allow entry when he became the Attorney General of Manitoba.
As Attorney General, Penner oversaw the bilingual legislation which retroactively re-enacted all Manitoba laws enacted in English only since 1891, which the Supreme Court held failed to meet a constitutional requirement for bilingual laws and were void ab initio.
He also was involved in the Meech Lake constitutional accord, which ultimately failed to pass.