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The List Study the List and Try Not to Peek at the Answer Introduction What follows is a long list of names. Most of them may be familiar. Some may not be, The question is: what do all these people have in common. You will notice that most are Americans, but a few are not. Many are dead, but some are not. The fact that they all made some contribution to society is not the solution. The List Study the list and try not to peek at the answer. The asterisks will be explained at the end too. I think you What do all these people have in will be surprised. common? Jay G. Williams Gwenfrewi Santes Press Norman Bel Geddes King Camp Gillette What do all these people have in common? Isaac Gimbel Jay Gould W.T. Grant* Business people and industrialists Daniel Guggenheim Edward Harriman* John Jacob Astor* John Hertz (rental cars) Glen Bell (Taco Bell) Conrad Hilton William E. Boeing Johns Hopkins* Gail Borden Howard Hughes Arde Bulova Steve Jobs (Apple Computers) David Burpee Howard Johnson* Adolphus Busch Mary Kay Andrew Carnegie* W.K. Kellogg* William James Chalmers* (of Allis-Chalmers) James Kemper (insurance) Walter Chrysler Ray Kroc* (McDonalds) Ezra Cornell Sebastian Kresge Michael Dell Estée Lauder Walt Disney Herman Lay (Frito-Lay) Washington Duke* Charles Lubin (Sara Lee) George Eastman* David Mcconnell (Avon) William Fargo* Rowland Macy Marshall Field* Andrew Mellon James Fisk* Charles Merrill (of Merrill-Lynch) James A. Folger (coffee) D. Ogden Mills Henry Ford* J.P. Morgan Henry C. Frick John Ringing North (circus) Alfred C. Fuller* (brushes) John Knudsen Northrop Bill Gates Ransom Olds* J.C. Penney Charles Post (cereals) Tallulah Bankhead John D. Rockefeller Ethel Barrymore Alvah Roebuck John Barrymore Colonel Harland Sanders Lionel Barrymore* Richard Sears* Humphrey Bogart* William Steinway Sonny Bono Levi Strauss Edwin Booth John and Clement Studebaker Robert Blake David Thomas (Wendy’s) John Bubbles* Ted Turner George Burns* Cornelius Vanderbilt* Raymond Burr* Matthew Vassar* Lon Chaney* John Wanamaker* Charlie Chaplin* Montgomery Ward* Katherine Cornell T. J. Watson (IBM) Merce Cunningham Henry Wells (Wells-Fargo) Clara Bow* George Westinghouse Major Bowes* F. W. Woolworth Walter Brennan Philip Wrigley Bette Davis Sammy Davis Jr.* Entertainers: Actors, Dancers and Directors Isadora Duncan Irene Dunne Bud Abbott* and Lou Costello* Henry Fonda Alvin Ailey Tennessee Ernie Ford Woody Allen Clark Gable* Desi Arnez Lillian Gish Adele Astaire* Samuel Goldwyn* Fred Astaire* Arthur Godfrey* Joan Baez Cary Grant* Lucille Ball W.D. Griffith P. T. Barnum Oliver Hardy Gabby Hayes* Jack Webb Rita Hayworth Lawrence Welk Audrey Hepburn Orson Welles Alfred Hitchcock* Oprah Winfrey Hedda Hopper* Natalie Wood Rock Hudson Darryl Zanuck George Jessel* Florenz Ziegfield Al Jolson Gene Kelly Grace Kelly Inventors, Naturalists, Scientists Peter Lawford* Stan Laurel John Abbott Myrna Loy James Audubon Madonna Matthias Baldwin (locomotive) The Marx Brothers* Edward Bausch Raymond Massey Alexander Graham Bell Adolphe Menjou Clarence Birdseye Marilyn Monroe* Luther Burbank* Arthur Murray* Thomas Carvel Dorothy Parker Bernard Castro* Elvis Presley Louis Chevrolet* Ginger Rogers Samuel Colt* Will Rogers John Deere* Ruth St. Denis Richard Drew (transparent tape) Phil Silvers* Thomas Edison* Frank Sinatra* Max Factor* Kate Smith Michael Faraday Barbra Streisand Philo T. Farnsworth (T.V.) Ed Sullivan R. Buckminster Fuller Tina Turner Robert Fulton Rudolph Valentino Charles Goodyear* Bette Nesmith Graham (white-out) Cesar Chavez* Elias Howe* Eugene Debs* Frederic Ives *(Photography) David Dubinsky* Candido Jacuzzi* Samuel Gompers* Edwin Land (camera) William Green Allan Lockheed* Jimmy Hoffa* Malcolm Lockheed Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Guglielmo Marconi John L. Lewis* Andre Michelin George Meany* Garrett Augustus Morgan* (traffic light) Arnold Ray Miller John Muir James Petrillo* Marlin Perkins Walter Reuther* James Ritty* (cash register) Philip Randolph Jacob Schick* Leonard Woodcock Christopher Lathan Sholer* (typewriter) Isaac M. Singer (sewing machine)* Musicians Charles Steinmetz Nikola Tesla Marian Anderson Earl Tupper (tupperware) Louis Armstrong* Horace Wells (anesthesia) Count Basie* George Westinghouse Sidney Bechet* Eli Whitney* Lead Belly* Granville Woods* Robert Russell Bennett* Orville* and Wilbur Wright Irving Berlin* Linus Yale* (lock) William Billings* Frank Zamboni John Cage Maria Callas Labor Leaders George M. Cohan Nat King Cole I.W. Abel John Coltrane Tony Boyle Aaron Copeland Walter Damrosch Ethel Merman Jimmy Dorsey* Glenn Miller Tommy Dorsey Thelonius Monk* Duke Ellington Charlie Parker* Morton Feldman* Luciano Pavarotti Ella Fitzgerald* Jan Peerce* Stephen Foster Rosa Ponselle* George Gershwin* Richard Rodgers Ira Gershwin Sigmund Romberg Benny Goodman* Arthur Rubenstein Morton Gould Arnold Schoenberg Arlo Guthrie Frank Sinatra* Woody Guthrie* John Philip Sousa Burl Ives Bessie Smith* Victor Herbert Kate Smith Earl Hines Joan Sutherland Billy Holiday Bruno Walters Vladamir Horowitz Ethel Waters* Mahalia Jackson* Andrew Lloyd Webber Harry James Kurt Weill Gordon Jenkins Mary L.C. B. Zimbalist Scott Joplin Stan Kenton Jerome Kern Public Figures John Lennon Frederick Loewe Benedict Arnold* Otto Luening* Jimmy Byrnes Henry Mancini John Chancellor Lowell Mason Henry Clay* Gian Carlo Menotti Grover Cleveland Yehudi Menuhin George Clinton William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Eddie Rickenbacker* Clarence Darrow George Lincoln Rockwell Doris Duke Karl Rowe Amelia Earhart Horatio Seymour Orval Faubus Stewart Symington Millard Fillmore Wallis Warfield Simpson John Nance Garner Al Smith Horace Greeley* Margaret Chase Smith Bobby Fischer* Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder Ben Franklin Henry Stanley Alexander Hamilton Zachary Taylor* William Henry Harrison Harry S. Truman Jesse Helms William M. Tweed Wild Bill Hickok* Amy Vanderbilt Robert Ingersol* Martin Van Buren* Andrew Jackson* Booker T. Washington Oswald Jacoby (bridge) George Washington Peter Jennings Walter Winchell* Andrew Johnson* Oprah Winfrey Larry King Fernando Wood Fiorello LaGuardia Victoria Woodhull Charles Lindberg Abraham Lincoln* Reformers and Spiritual Leaders Huey Long Clare Booth Luce Susan B. Anthony Malcolm X Alice Bailey Elsa Maxwell* Adin Ballou William McKinley Black Elk Golda Meier H.P. Blavatsky* Matthew Perry John Brown* Emily Post* Orestes Brownson* Alexander Campbell Dorothy Day Visual Artists, Architects, Photographers Father Divine Dorothea Dix* Charles Addams Frederick Douglass Ansel Adams Mary Baker Eddy Peter Arno Charles G. Finney Albert Bierstadt* The Fox Sisters George Caleb Bingham* Margaret Fuller Mathew Brady* William Lloyd Garrison Al Capp Marcus Garvey William Merritt Chase Sarah Grimke Frederick Church Ann Lee Thomas Cole Jiddu Krishnamurti John Singleton Copley Amiee Semple McPherson Ralph Adams Cram Lucretia Mott Jasper Cropsey William Miller Currier *and Ives* Dwight L. Moody* Arthur Bowen Davies Henry Steel Olcott Walt Disney Thomas Paine* Frank Doubleday* Oral Roberts Thomas Eakins Margaret Sanger Alfred Eisenstaedt Joseph Smith Beatrix Jones Farrand Billy Sunday* A.B. Frost* Lewis and Arthur Tappan Chester Gould Harriet Tubman* Marsden Hartley* Theodore Weld Childe Hassam Jemima Wilkinson* Edward Hicks Lucy Wright (Shakers) Winslow Homer John Woolman Philip Hooker (architect)* Brigham Young Edward Hopper Daniel Huntington Henry Inman* Writers and Publishers William Henry Jackson Jasper Johns Edward Albee Walt Kelly Louisa May Alcott Rockwell Kent Sherwood Anderson Dorothea Lange Maya Angelou Walter Lanz James Baldwin George Luks Frank L. Baum* Grandma Moses* James Beard (cooking) Thomas Nast* Josh Billings Georgia O'Keefe Erma Bombeck Charles Willson Peale Ann Bradstreet Titian Peale George Brett (Macmillan, pres.) Rembrandt Peale Joseph Brodsky* Raphaelle Peale William Cullen Bryant Jackson Pollack Thornton W. Burgess Ernie Pyle Edgar Rice Burroughs Norman Rockwell Abe Burrows Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Erskine Caldwell Frederic Remington Truman Capote* Charles Shulz John Cheever* Maurice Sendak Agatha Christie John Sloan* James Fenimore Cooper Edward Steichen Noel Coward* John Twachtman Hart Crane James Whistler Stephen Crane Grant Wood Robert Creeley Frank Lloyd Wright* Fanny Crosby Andrew Wyeth* Cyrus Curtis* Chic Young George Curtis Charles Dana Helen Hunt Jackson Richard Dana Sr. Henry James Emily Dickinson Alexander Bryan Johnson* Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) George Jones* (N.Y. Times) Theodore Dreiser George Kauffman Paul Dunbar Jack Kerouac Ralph Ellison Denise Levertov* William Faulkner Jack London* Edna Ferber Amy Lowell* F. Scott Fitzgerald Edgar Lee Masters Robert Frost Carson McCullers Erle Stanley Gardner Herman Melville* William Lloyd Garrison H.L. Mencken Horace Greeley* Henry Miller Alex Haley Margaret Mitchell Fitz-Greene Halleck* Anais Nin Dashiell Hammett Clifford Odetts* James,* John,* and Fletcher* Harper Eugene O'Neill Joel Chandler Harris Thomas Paine* Lorenzo Hart S. J. Perelman Moss Hart Edgar Allan Poe Bret Harte Katherine Anne Porter William Randolph Hearst George Putnam Lillian Hellman James Whitcomb Riley Ernest Hemingway Edward Arlington Robinson Eric Hoffer* Carl Sandberg* Julia Ward Howe William Saroyan* William Dean Howells Anne Sexton Langston Hughes Sam Shepard Washington Irving Isaac Bashevis Singer Christopher Isherwood Cornelia Otis Skinner Gertrude Stein Give up? According to the American National John Steinbeck Biography (1999), The Encyclopedia Britannica, Who’s Wallace Stevens Who in America and several other sources, not one of I. F. Stone these persons was awarded an earned
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