When Felix Frankfurter was working in Washington during the Roosevelt administration, he had a reputation for recruiting smart, enthusiastic young men from Harvard. They got nicknamed “Felix’s happy hotdogs”, a double pun on his name.
President Theodore Roosevelt was blind in one eye, the result of a boxing injury; the disability did not become public knowledge until after his death.
Art Carney was the first actor to play neat freak Felix Ungar on Broadway, in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple.
What does that have to do with the preceding post?
Assuming the above is still the one in play:
Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television.
Vanessa Williams was the first African-American woman to be crowned Miss America.
Joe Kapp was the first QB to start in the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl, and the Grey Cup.
Harvey Milk was first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California.
Actually, he’s not the first but he’s the only QB to have done this.
In play:
Harvey Milk was born on Long Island, NY. In college in Albany, NY he majored in mathematics.
Throughout the world, there are more than 6 billion consumers of milk and milk products.
The World President honors the robot Andrew in the Isaac Asimov short story “The Bicentennial Man.”
Isaac Asimov was born in Russia. His works have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal System:
000 – Computer science, Library and Information science & general work
100 – Philosophy and psychology
200 – Religion
300 – Social sciences
400 – Language
500 – Science
600 – Technology
700 – Arts
800 – Literature
900 – History, geography & biography
Asimov did not publish a work in 100 – Philosophy and psychology.
The Spanish were so certain they would lose the battle of Manila Bay to Admiral Dewey that they set their battle line so that when the ships were sunk, the sailors could swim to shore.
Charles “Lucky” Luciano had Dutch Schultz rubbed out because the reckless Schultz was plotting to murder prosecutor (and future Presidential candidate) Thomas Dewey, which Luciano thought would bring the feds down hard on organized crime.
Perennial Presidential candidate Harold Stassen ran for the high office twelve times. Unlike many other perennial candidates, Stassen actually won some primaries and was enough of a political force that Thomas Dewey challenged him to a debate. The Dewey-Stassen 1948 debate before the Oregon primary is the first recorded debate between modern presidential candidates to take place in the United States.
Muddy Waters’1948 hit “Rollin’ Stone” was the inspiration for a 1960s band a few decades later. (Hint for you youngsters: It was NOT “The Beatles”, “The Who” “The Kinks” or “Cream.”)
Ethel Waters was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the 1949 movie Pinky.
No Best Supporting Actress nominee has won two Academy Awards in a row. Jason Robards is the only star to win back-to-back Best Supporting Actor Oscars (For All the President’s Men and Julia).
Carol “Pinky” Tuscadero, the older sister of Leather Tuscadero, was played by actress Roz Kelly. Both Tuscadero sisters dated Fonzie on the TV series Happy Days.
Ninja’d by Sam so I inserted the word actress.
Comedienne Marsha Warfield played Roz Russell, the bailiff who replaced Flo on Night Court when the character and the actress who played her (Florence Halop) died; Flo/Halop had replaced Selma, a character who was killed off when the actress who played her (Selma Diamond) died.