Actually, it was John Pope.
The Pope in 1941 was Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, or Pius XII.
Pope Pius XII, who died in 1958, suffered from episodes of chronic hiccups.
The longest recorded continuous hiccup attack lasted 68 years, suffered by Charles Osborne, who finally found relief in 1990…a year before he died.
In 1982 Ozzie Osbourne was arrested for urinating on a memorial to the soldiers who died at the Alamo (he did not urinate on the Alamo itself as some accounts reported) and was banned from San Antonio for a decade.
Comedienne Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas.
Carol Burnett appeared as Eunice Higgins on a few episodes of Mama’s Family, a show whose creator (Dick Clair) willed his points in the show to fund research at ALCOR, the cryonics insitute that froze his remains.
In the final episode of “Magnum PI,” Higgins admits being Robin Masters… then later smirks, “I lied,” leaving the matter unresolved forever.
I’d checked on Google and found several citations to Hooker. James McPherson in the Pulitzer-winning The Battle Cry of Freedom doesn’t say; maybe you’re right.
Clint Eastwood played Det. “Dirty Harry” Callahan, whose famous weapon was a .357 Magnum.
Magnum condoms are targeted at men with larger erections, not those that are 3.57 inches long.
Erector sets were first sold by A.C. Gilbert in 1913 and were manufactured in New Haven, CT; later they were sold and manufactured in Lancaster PA and now they are of foreign manufacture.
Irish singer Raymond O’Sullivan scored several huge hits in the Seventies under the name “Gilbert” O’Sullivan.
Raymond James Stadium, in Tampa, has a pirate ship at one end with working cannons*.
*Ok, they are just used to make noise and don’t actually fire anything.
Pirate Henry Morgan, namesake of a popular brand of rum, was the subject of John Steinbeck’s novel “Cup of Gold.”
One of the main characters in Steinbeck’s novella The Wayward Bus is obsessed with Clark Gable; another, named Carson, wants everyone to call him Kit.
Carson Wyler is Garrison Keillor’s alter ego in some of his radio sketches during The Prairie Home Companion.
Inspired by the movie The Dirty Dozen, the 1967 TV series Garrison’s Gorillas was about a group of convicts that went on commando missions behind enemy lines.
William Lloyd Garrison published the anti-slavery newspaper, the weekly Liberator, more than three decades, from 1831 until after the end of the Civil War in 1865. During that 35 years, 1,820 issues, Garrison did not fail to publish a single issue.
David Lloyd George, who was born in Wales, was the British prime minister during World War I. After his wife’s death, he married his mistress of 30 years, which caused great tension between him and his children.
Wales and Bhutan are the only countries to have a dragon on their flag.
Darryl Dragon, the son of orchestra conductor Carmen Dragon, was given the nickname “Captain Keyboards” by the Beach Boys. He later married singer Toni Tennille, with whom he recorded several big hits.