“Goat” is the stage name of Andy Rosen, Al’s son. Andy/Goat’s song Great Life was on the soundtrack of the film I Know What You Did Last Summer, and later featured on a Kia commercial.
In Robert B. Parker’s The Judas Goat, Spenser and Hawk tackle a sniper who’s targeting black African athletes at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
“Judas Goat” was one of several nicknames in USAAF WW2 bomber groups for formation ships or assembly ships, which were “war weary” planes given bright, distinctive color patterns. At the start of a mission, the group’s planes, normally B-17’s and B-24’s, would make their formations in alignment with the Judas Goat, which would then return to its base.
Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart both served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
When British actor James Stewart attempted a movie career in the 1940s, he was not allowed to use his real name. SAG does not allow two actors to use the same stage name, so Stewart was billed as Stewart Granger.
A Granger is a member of The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, aka The Grange, an American farmers’ organization. Their lobbying in the 19th century contributed to railroad reforms, the Cooperative Extension Service, Rural Free Delivery, the Farm Credit System, Prohibition, the direct election of Senators and women’s suffrage.
Andrew Volstead, for whom the Prohibition-establishing Volstead Act was named, was an alumnus of St. Olaf College and served as mayor of the Minnesota town of Granite Falls before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Al Capone died January 25, 1947, just five days after Andrew Volstead, who was responsible for so much of his success.
Al Capone’s vault was an underground room in the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, where previously a number of tunnels had been discovered. The room was opened during a live television broadcast in 1985, hosted by Geraldo Rivera and watched by 30 million people. The vault was empty except for a few empty bottles.
I was one of the ones watching. Geraldo Rivera ended up being roundly ridiculed for all the hype leading up to it.
You can park more than 1000 automobiles on the flight deck of the USS Lexington.
There have been five USS Lexingtons in the U.S. Navy, all named after an early battle of the American Revolution. The most recent, a WW2 aircraft carrier, is now a museum ship moored at Corpus Christi, Texas. She was the last Essex-class carrier to serve in the Navy.
Numerous World War 2 veterans assembled in Corpus Christi to protest against the use of the USS Lexington as a Japanese aircraft carrier, during the shooting of Michael Bay’s movie ***Pearl Harbor.
The Los Angeles class attack submarine USS City of Corpus Christi, one of a series named after cities where the Navy has bases, was given the extra words “City of” in its name because of protests against naming a warship after the body of Christ.
The Corpus Christi Carol is a medieval song in highly symbolic language, believed to refer to the Grail Legend or the body of Christ. It was beautifully arranged for four-part choir under the name of The Falcon by John Gerrish mid twentieth century. (I sang alto in it as part of New Jersey Regional Chorus in 1974.)
Different knights of King Arthur’s Round Table find the Grail, the cup which Jesus used in the Last Supper, in various retellings of the Grail legend over the years. Galahad, Bors, Lancelot and Percival most often are the blessed knight.
King Henry VIII of England attempted to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon on the ground that it was incestuous. When the Pope refused, he claimed the Pope had no authority to overrule the proscription in the bible against marrying you brother’s wife: Catherine has been married to Henry’s older brother Arthur, but swore she never slept with him.
Edward I’s wife, Eleanor of Castile, also a Spanish princess married to an English king, was titled “Infanta de Castilla”. The Elephant and Castle section of London takes its name from a pub that may have taken its name from a mispronunciation of the Queen’s title.
Queen Berúthiel is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien’s books. She was “nefarious, solitary and loveless,” and she and King Falastur had no children. She and her nine black cats and one white cat, her spies, were eventually sent to sea in exile, with her name stricken forever from the records of Gondor.
[del]A building in Margate City, New Jersey, is in the form of an elephant and is known as “Lucy” to lovers of zoomorphic architecture.[/del]
The “Black Cats” is the official nickname of England’s Sunderland Association Football Club.
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff first worked together on the film The Black Cat. Lugosi actually played a good guy and, despite its title, the movie had nothing to do with the Poe story by that name (though it’s fairly good overall).