Al Gore also attended an elite prep school: St. Alban’s of Washington DC.
He was also an HS jock, Captain of the football team.
I am not sure if pool and and dope kept off the team in college, or if
he took up pool and dope only after getting cut during team tryouts.
Future Boston Mayor and Vatican Ambassador Ray Flynn was the last cut from the '64 Boston Celtics.
The expression “In like Fynn” refers to actor Errol Flynn and his swashbuckler roles where he swung onto ships. Some say it also refers to his legendary sexual prowess among the Hollywood starlets.
Only three times, I think. 
In the only one of their four 1960 debates between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon in which the two candidates weren’t in the same studio, Nixon was in Hollywood and Kennedy was in New York City.
Among the men to own stakes in the Hollywood Stars minor-league baseball team were Bob Cobb (restaurant owner for who the Cobb salad is named), William “Fred Mertz” Frawley, and Gene Autry (who later added fame as the owner of the major-league Angels to the renown he had gained as a singing cowboy actor).
William Frawley, a huge baseball fan, had a condition in his contracts that he did not have to work during the World Series.
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Kingsfield of The Paper Chase Movie and TV series
taught the Law 1 Contracts course.
In both the film and TV series, Kingsfield was played by John Houseman, whose career until then had been mostly as a film and Broadway producer and longtime close collaborator with Orson Welles, including the productions of Citizen Kane and “War of the Worlds”. Houseman’s friends, who knew him for his warmth and geniality, were dumbstruck at how well he played the imperious, remote Kingsfield, utterly unlike himself.
Actors who have played John Houseman (in movies about the Mercury Theatre) include Eddie Marsan in Me and Orson Welles and Princess Bride star Cary Elwes in The Cradle Will Rock.
Mercury Records, founded in Chicago in 1945 as a jazz and blues label, broke into the pop market by signing Frankie Laine, Vic Damone, Tony Fontane and Patti Page. The label also pioneered the use of overdubbing.
At one point, they employed midget Eddie Gaedel as the “Mercury Man”, complete with winged helmet and shoes (Gaedel was later Number 1/8 as a pinch hitter for Bill Veeck’s St. Louis Browns baseball team).
The St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore, becoming the Orioles.
The Washington Senators baseball team moved to Minneapolis after the 1960 season, becoming the Minnesota Twins from 1961. A new Washington Senators team was immediately created, but it moved to Arlington, Texas after the 1971 season, becoming the Texas Rangers from 1972.
John Houseman had a small part in the political conspiracy movie Seven Days in May as a senior U.S. Navy admiral who confirms to a White House aide that a military coup plot is afoot, just before the man heads back to Washington.
John Houseman was born Jacques Haussmann in Bucharest, Romania in 1902. He was educated in England at Clifton College and became a British citizen and then eventually emigrated to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. He became an American citizen in 1943.
So, I guess he was Romanian, then British, then American.
Although Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante was not the first to wear a face mask
he was the first to do so on a regular basis.
i think we got lost there, but what the hell … Lorne John “Gump” Worsley, who played mostly for the Montreal Canadiens but finished his career with the 1973-74 Minnesota North Stars, was the last NHL goalie to play without a mask. The first NHL player to wear a helmet was the Boston Bruins’ George Owen in 1928-29. and the last to not wear one was Craig MacTavish of the 1996-97 St. Louis Blues.
Jacques Haussmann > Jacques Plante.
Prior to the original USSR-NHL “Summit Series” NHL scouts attended
a game in which Soviet goalie-designate Vladislav Tretiak gave up a
horrendous eight goals. The scouts accordingly reported that Soviet
goal tending was a weak spot.
Well, it turned out that Tretiak stunned the NHL stars with a performance
for the ages, even if it was in a losing cause. He went on to (as far as
I can tell from skimming) 13 ice hockey world championships including
three Olympic gold medals, and the 1981 Canada cup where he turned
back 27/28 shots in the final game vs Canada, a 6-1 win.
In 2008 Tretiak was voted starting goalie for the first international centennial team.
So why was he so lousy in that game long ago under the watchful gaze
of the NFL scouts?
Wiki has it he was married the day before! Another source I recall reading
said he was to be married the next day. Either way, his lack of concentration
is understandable.
Colorado is nicknamed the Centennial State because it entered the union in 1876, a century after the Declaration of Independence.
Former football star Byron “Whizzer” White headed the 1960 Kennedy campaign’s Colorado efforts. He was later named to a top Justice Department post, and eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After his college football career, Byron White played pro football for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions. At one point, he was the highest-paid player in the National Football League.
Gerald Ford, who was also a star football player in college, never played pro football, although he was on the College All-Star team that played the Chicago Bears in an exhibition game.