Honorary Unsubscribe v2

Description

The second book in the This is True Honorary Unsubscribe series includes 146 stories about “The People You Will Wish You Had Known”. The period covered is 2003 through 2005. 158 pages, 5.5×8.5″.

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146 Amazing People

This second volume of astonishing people has more amazing inventors: several of the minds that made the Internet possible. The creator of the Smiley Face, and why he didn’t get rich from it. The originator of organic foods, and the stores which sell them. The guy who came up with the “Wave” used in sports stadiums.

How about the man who made sure the world knew about Schindler’s “list” — because he himself was on it? And wait until you hear what else the inventor of the Barbie doll created. Plus the guy who turned a pie plate into the Frisbee flying disk, and the amusing way he wanted to be remembered.

And then there’s the artists — the creators of music and TV shows you love (like Leave It To Beaver, and who that show was based on); even the guy who invented the pinup. Doctors who made radical breakthroughs to improve human life, such as the doctor who wrote the first textbook for paramedics. And yeah, a couple more rocket scientists, plus a few more entertainers who died mostly forgotten.

The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. You’ve seen the Norman Rockwell print of the small-town doctor, but you likely never heard his name (until now).

All those stories are in this book, plus more than a hundred more (146 total). The stories are fascinating: you won’t believe the cool people you have missed in your life. These are the people you will wish you had known.

The Honorees

1. Tree lover Sally White
2. MedicAlert founder Chrissie Woolcock Collins
3. Stored program inventor Tom Kilburn
4. Literary agent Candida Donadio
5. Titanic survivor Michel Navratil
6. Social activist Fuki Kushida
7. Screenwriter Burt Kennedy
8. Comedy writer Robert Weiskopf
9. Digital communications pioneer Claude Shannon
10. Dancer Ninette de Valois
11. Schindler booster Leopold Page
12. The Intrepid Mir Space Station
13. Newspaperman John Oakes
14. Smiley Face creator Harvey R. Ball
15. Faucet inventor Alfred Moen
16. Infrared visionary Fred Gillett
17. Everest climber Babu Chiri Sherpa
18. Songwriter James Myers
19. Small town physician Donald E. Campbell
20. Pinup creator Hartzell Spence
21. Transportation innovator Malcom P. McLean
22. Comedian Imogene Coca
23. Foodie Ralph A. Miller
24. Bluesman John Lee Hooker
25. Usenet creator Jim Ellis
26. Natural food pusher Aveline Kushi
27. Peking Man finder Jia Lanpo
28. Civil rights attorney Robert Wolfe Gilbert
29. Writer Poul Anderson
30. Musician Larry Adler
31. Bowler Earl Anthony
32. Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle
33. German Measles vaccine developer Harry M. Meyer Jr
34. NASA spokesman Julian W. Scheer
35. Passengers and crew of Flight 93
36. TV producer Fred de Cordova
37. Computer animator Robert Abel
38. Coin designer Frank Gasparro
39. Cancer surgeon William G. Cahan
40. Supervoter Neal Tillotson
41. “Red card” inventor Kenneth Aston
42. Code-talking promoter Mary Gorman
43. The ever-thankful Percy Ross
44. Win-win analyzer Stuart Nagel
45. “Lady Marjorie” actress Rachel Gurney
46. Holocaust alarm raiser Gerhart Riegner
47. Spacecraft power developer Jerome Morse
48. Band director and waver Bill Bissell
49. Comedian Foster Brooks
50. No-nonsense producer Julia Phillips
51. Laser physicist Alexander Prokhorov
52. TV humor writer Mike Marmer
53. Computer networking pioneer Richard H. Bolt
54. Actor Harold Russell
55. Boat designer Graham Guilford Haddock Jr
56. French resistance fighter Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz
57. Genomic researcher Norman Davidson
58. Lifelong newsboy Bernard Green
59. Hollywood producer Mimi Roth
60. Publishing system inventor Rudolf Hell
61. Actress Rosetta LeNoire
62. Spacecraft engineer Thomas J. Kelly
63. Communications satellite engineer John R. Pierce
64. Writer and producer Roy Huggins
65. TV bailiff Rusty Burrell
66. German freedom fighter Kurt Klein
67. Doll — and breast — designer Ruth Handler
68. Songwriter Otis Blackwell
69. Light bulb collector Hugh Francis Hicks
70. MAD cartoonist Dave Berg
71. Marine conservationist Milton C. Shedd
72. Literary editor Murray Fisher
73. Meteorologist John Hope
74. Football great John “Jay” Berwanger
75. Cancer drug discoverer Monroe E. Wall
76. Photographer Yousuf Karsh
77. Career advisor Bernard Haldane
78. “Mickey Mouse Club Show” composer Norman Baker
79. Polymer chemist William A. Mallow
80. Frisbee developer Ed Headrick
81. Skunk Works test pilot Louis Schalk Jr
82. Docudrama inventor Stanley R. Greenberg
83. Anthropological Conservationist Carolyn Rose
84. “Miranda” lawyer John P. Frank
85. Chemical engineer Donald L. Campbell
86. Programmer Bob Wallace
87. Pilot Aileen Saunders Mellott
88. Film producer Sidney Pink
89. “OK” etymologist Allen Walker Read
90. Restauranteur Sema Wilkes
91. Soundman Keith A. Wester
92. Space radio engineer Henry Taylor Howard
93. “Twilight Zone” savior Bert Granet
94. “Great Escape” musician Walter W. Kinnan
95. “Bullwinkle” animator William Henson
96. Jungle society preservationist Orlando Villas Boas
97. Paramedic author Nancy Caroline
98. Philanthropist Virginia McKnight Binger
99. Classic TV producer William T. Orr
100. “Daisies” author Jean Kerr
101. Boston Marathon director William T. Cloney
102. Death psychologist Herman Feifel
103. 7-Eleven founder John P. Thompson
104. God’s beggar Werenfried van Straaten
105. “Beaver” creator Joe Connelly
106. Military thinker Eugene J. Carroll Jr
107. Pioneering spacecraft Pioneer 10
108. Radiation expert Gilbert W. Beebe
109. Beeb announcer Alan Keith
110. PC pioneer Adam Osborne
111. Medical researcher Arthur C. Guyton
112. Computer networker Anita Borg
113. Immunologist Charles Janeway Jr
114. Relational data baser Edgar F. Codd
115. “Gilligan” composer George Wyle
116. “Pygmalion” actress Wendy Hiller
117. Tobacco educator Barb Tarbox
118. Dancer Howard “Sandman” Sims
119. Movie producer Beverly Bailis Karp
120. Concentrated orange juice creator Wallace R. Roy
121. Rocket scientist Magnus von Braun
122. Betamax lawyer Dean Dunlavey
123. Hand surgeon Paul Wilson Brand
124. “Siskel and Ebert” creator Eliot Wald
125. Vietnam National Veterans Memorial creator Victor Westphall
126. Record producer Sam Phillips
127. CPR creator Peter Safar
128. WAVE pioneer Laura Rapaport Borsten
129. Life teacher Connie Douglas Reeves
130. Cinematographer Brianne Murphy
131. Boys Town resurrectionist Robert Hupp
132. “Hogan’s Heroes” demolitionist Larry Hovis
133. “Superman” writer Jay Morton
134. Carbon-14 dater Mark G. Inghram
135. Lord Mayor Mary Donaldson
136. “James Bond” inspiration Patrick Dalzel-Job
137. Alaska conservationist Margaret Murie
138. Washington mayor Walter Edward Washington
139. True Value creator Edward E. Lanctot
140. Actress Penny Singleton
141. Bridge engineer Tung-Yen Lin
142. Liberty-promoting reporter John Patrick Hunter
143. Pioneering TV executive Ethel Winant
144. Character actress Madlyn Rhue
145. Pearl Harbor radar operator George E. Elliott Jr
146. Computer/Internet pioneer Phillip Goldman