That’s “Lincoln beat Douglas” in the last sentence, obviously. :smack:
Stephen Douglass was an actor on Broadway, best known for his performance of Shoeless Joe Hardy in the original production of Damn Yankees
Stephen Girard was a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and supporter of the Revolutionary cause, accused - perhaps falsely - of having his unfaithful wife locked up in an insane asylum in the play The Insanity of Mary Girard.
[del]Gwen Verdon solidified her fame as the greatest dancer on Broadway for her portrayal of Lola, the girlfriend of “Mr. Applegate” (Satan) in Damn Yankees, which was her first work with Bob Fosse, her future husband.[/del]
Mary Todd Lincoln was committted to an insane asylum, after Abraham’s murder, by her son, Robert Todd Lincoln.
In an epiisode of the TV series Route 66 Tod and Buzz help a woman recently released from a mental hospital.
Route 66, despite the lyrics by Bobby Troup (who later played a doctor on Emergency), did not wind from Chicago to LA, but to Santa Monica.
Martin Milner from the series Route 66 later starred in the Jack Webb series Adam 12 with Kent McCord, who later starred in the lamentable sci-fi series [Battlestar]* Galactica 1980*.
In the Pixar movie Cars, Lightning McQueen is stranded in the little town of Radiator Springs, along Route 66.
In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine, revealed as Darth Sidious, secretly issues Order 66 for all clone troopers to turn on and kill the Jedi knights who are accompanying them.
Phillips Petroleum named its gasoline Phillips 66 after the fuel was being tested on Route 66 and the driver noticed that the car was going 66 miles per hour.
Waite Phillips, also an oil baron (but apparently unrelated to the Phillips Petroleum company founders), donated 127,000 acres of his favorite ranch in New Mexico to the Boy Scouts of America, together with an office building as part of its endowment. After his death in early 1964, the ranch was renamed Philmont Scout Ranch, which it remains to this day.
The Lone Ranger’s horse’s name is Silver, Tonto’s is Scout, and Dan Reid’s (the Lone Ranger’s nephew) horse is named Victor.
Dan Reid’s son, Britt, became the costumed crime-fighter, The Green Hornet.
On Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (a series that earned its producer and creator Bill Cosby was awarded a doctorate in education) The Brown Hornet was a superhero on the show-within-the-show.
Bill Cosby ran on the track team and played football at Philadelphia’s Temple University.
Shirley Temple (Black) was appointed ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald Ford.
Sleazy talk show host Maury Povich was the son of veteran Washington sportswriter Shirley Povich, who continued cranking out his column until he was 92 years old.
Maurice Morning “Maury” Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers stole 104 bases in 1962 to set the modern Major League Baseball record. The Washington Senators had 99 steals as a team, good enough to lead the American League that year.
Irish-American gangster Jimmy Burke and some accomplices stole nearly $6 million in cash and jewelry at Kennedy Airport, in the famous “Lufthansa Heist.” The story of this robbery was told, in fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.”
James Burke (different guy than the gangster mentioned above) is a British science broadcaster best-known for his Connections television series.