The Phillips Petroleum Company was founded by brothers Frank and Lee Phillips of Nebraska. They started by drilling for oil near Bartlesville OK. When he was just 14, Frank Phillips persuaded a barber in Creston IA, near where they lived st the time, to take him on as an apprentice. Ten years later, he owned all three barber shops in Creston. One of his barbershops was in the basement of a bank in Creston.
Creston, Iowa was originally settled in 1868 as a survey camp for the workers with the Burlington and Missouri Railroad. The campsite was on the crest of the railroad line between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, hence the name “Creston.”
American icon Charles Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,and grew up in Saint Paul. He was the only child of the barber Carl Schulz, and later had his lead Peanuts character Charlie Brown have a father who was also a barber.
Charlie Brown once had a female counterpart named Charlotte Braun, but she disappeared from the “Peanuts” strip (against Schulz’ preferences) due to readers’ antipathy toward her unsympathetic nature.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), now running for reelection, served previously as a Congressman and as Secretary of State of Ohio. His wife is Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist formerly with *The Plain Dealer *of Cleveland. Her first novel is due to be published soon.
Heywood Campbell Broun was married to writer-editor Ruth Hale, a feminist, who a few years later co-founded the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to keep their maiden names after marriage, in the manner of Lucy Stone. They had one son, Heywood Hale Broun, who became famous in his own right as an author, sportswriter, commentator, and actor.
Joanne Heywood is an English television actress, probably best known for her role as Jessica Lovelock in Grace & Favour, a spin-off series of Are You Being Served?.
When the Simpsons shorts first aired on the Tracy Ullman Show, FOX-TV would get calls from viewers of Murder She Wrote (starring Angela Landsbury) asking when the cartoons would be on so they could change the channel.
The Simpsons would later air “Bart’s Girlfriend,” Rev. Lovejoy’s good on the outside, evil on the inside daughter named Jessica, in tribute to Ms. Fletcher.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Using both elevated rail and subway, BART connects San Francisco and Oakland with urban and suburban areas in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties. First opened in 1972, BART serves 48 stations along six routes on 112 miles of rapid transit lines. With an average of 423,000 weekday passengers and 124.2 million annual passengers in 2017, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States.
BART trains can travel at speeds of up to 80 mph, but they typically go no faster than 66-70 mph. BART construction officially began on June 19, 1964, and President Lyndon Johnson presided over the ground-breaking ceremony.
Had he not been killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his wife, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, would have visited Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson’s Texas ranch that fateful trip.
LBJ’s Presidential Library and Museum is in Austin TX.
JFK’s Presidential Library and Museum is in Boston MA.
“Old Mr. Boston” has been a brand of distilled spirits since the end of Prohibition in the 1930s. However, the brand is likely best known for its long-running series of “Mr. Boston Official Bartender Guide,” which contained recipes for hundreds of cocktails. While the books are no longer published in hard-copy form, the guide lives on as a website.
The debut album, Boston (1976), broke sales records and became the best-selling debut album in the US at the time. It was awarded the RIAA Century Award as the best selling debut album.
John Francis “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald was the father of Rose Kennedy and maternal grandfather of future President John F. Kennedy. He served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Mayor of Boston.
well, fudge.
I’ll play off of that! 
In the late 17th century, fudge was a verb meaning “to fit together or adjust [clumsily].” Then around 1800, the word was used to mean a hoax or cheat. By mid-century, the use of the term “Oh, fudge!” as a kid-friendly expletive had come into favor, and was often used when something had been messed up. It’s believed that the first batch of fudge was created when someone was trying to make caramels and “fudged” up.
And… the name stuck.
Yippee ki-yay, mother fudgers! 
Actor Alan Fudge had an extensive career on TV, from the 1970s through the 2000s. He was a regular cast member on “The Man From Atlantis” and “Eischied,” as well as many guest appearances on other series. He appeared in an episode of “MAS*H,” in which he played a pilot who had come com to believe he was Jesus Christ.
Allen Funt was a TV producer, director, writer and television personality best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s. Among Funt’s first jobs was in radio, where he wrote for Truth or Consequences and assisted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with her radio commentaries.
Since I aced out poor Elendel’s hair above, I should tie them back into the thread, so:
In play: Sir Alan Edward Percival **Rose **was a British barrister and colonial judge who was the 30th Chief Justice of Ceylon and the first Chief Justice of the State of Singapore. Rose was knighted in 1950 and created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1955. He finally retired in 1963 and died in Brighton, England in 1975.