Honorary Unsubscribe v3

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The third book in the This is True Honorary Unsubscribe series includes 149 stories about “The People You Will Wish You Had Known”. The period covered is 2006 through 2009. 163 pages, 5.5×8.5″.

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150 Amazing People

This third volume of astonishing people has more amazing inventors: the doctor who invented the implantable drug infusion pump, which is now used by diabetics to keep blood insulin levels in check. The doctor who came up with acetaminophen, to treat your headaches and other pains. The physicist and engineer who invented the crash-test dummy (and why). The guy who came up with the idea for renting videos. The microbiologist who is responsible for saving more lives than anyone else in history.

There’s also the woman who founded the first rape crisis center in the U.S. (because her 15-year-old daughter really needed it). The guy who came up with the first web crawler to create a search engine (it wasn’t Google).

And then there’s the artists — the guy responsible for bringing Batman to modern audiences, after the character declined after World War II. The woman who created “Brenda Starr”. The man who quit his corporate job and came up with a new concept to help the poor: the food bank.

You’ve heard of the Green Berets — the very first Special Forces team. Have you ever heard of the secret agent who was responsible for creating them, and chose the color of the beret? You will here. And the guy who was the first Blue Angel — the U.S. Air Force’s precision flying team.

Not to mention the doctors who improve or save lives, like the one in New Zealand who recognized, and developed a treatment for, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Plus, of course, a number of rocket scientists and other geeks.

The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. This volume includes 149 of those fascinating men and women. These are the people you will wish you had known.

The Honorees

1. Digital sound pioneer Thomas G. Stockham Jr.
2. Writer Jack Cady
3. Obstetric anesthesiology pioneer Gertie Marx
4. Movie trailer reinventor Andrew J. Kuehn
5. Scifi agent and editor Julius Schwartz
6. Female prisoner advocate Sybil Brand
7. Over-the-moon composer Bart Howard
8. Bang-up producer Dana Broccoli
9. Computer missionary George E. Pake
10. Rocket scientist William H. Pickering
11. Yet Another Unknown U.S. Marine
12. Special Operations operative Aaron Bank
13. Soviet dissident Larisa Bogoraz
14. Manufacturer turned health lobbyist Phil Sokolof
15. Army wife Julia Compton Moore
16. Deaf educator Edward Scouten
17. Surgeon Richard Lynn Varco
18. Medical experimentation victim David Reimer
19. Highway engineer Marilyn Jorgenson Reece
20. Book publisher Roger W. Straus Jr
21. Eye surgery pioneer Charles Kelman
22. Doctor Jordan B. Fieldman
23. Federal judge Prentice Marshall
24. Infant anatomist Edmund Crelin Jr.
25. Pulp author Hugh B. Cave
26. Valiant illustrator John Cullen Murphy
27. The imaginative Sam McKim
28. The “R” of “H&R” Richard A. Bloch
29. Pop food scientist William A. Mitchell
30. Carried-away actress Fay Wray
31. War photographer Carl Mydans
32. Taboo researcher Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
33. Bright as a comet Fred L. Whipple
34. Jack-O-Farmer Nick Venetucci
35. Beachcomber Al Baldwin
36. Accidental spy Iceal Hambleton
37. Foghorn-voiced Scott Muni
38. Magnificent 1/7th Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.
39. Photographic art pioneer Helen Gee
40. First Amendment defender Richard M. Schmidt Jr.
41. The jazzy Joe Bushkin
42. Best buddies Jeremiah Baro and Jared Hubbard
43. Media critic Reed Irvine
44. The rational Ancel Keys
45. Universalist Albert A. Dorskind
46. JPLers Jane Galloway, Kerri Agey and Dorothy Forks
47. Loyal American Harry Ueno
48. The supportive Harold Benjamin
49. Headache-free Julius Axelrod
50. The demanding Gerard Debreu
51. Victim advocate Oleta Kirk Abrams
52. The scientific Dennis Flanagan
53. The captivating Nick McDonald
54. Television legend Johnny Carson
55. The low-pressure Edward D. Freis
56. The well-grounded Karl Linn
57. Non-dummy Samuel W. Alderson
58. High-flier Uli Derickson
59. The safely clad George F. Crikelair
60. The pre-recorded George Atkinson
61. Superdad Richard Dutrow
62. The very patient Simon Eisdorfer
63. The cold-hearted Wilfred G. Bigelow
64. Real-life Starr Dale Messick
65. The well-vaccinated Maurice R. Hilleman
66. Civic-minded Marla Ruzicka
67. Educational TV pioneer John F. White
68. The well-decorated David H. Hackworth
69. The magical Jay Marshall
70. Actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin
71. The alarming E. Harris Nober
72. Heroic actor Leon Askin
73. The record-breaking Simon Waronker
74. Happily married Percy Arrowsmith
75. The non-ignorant Shana Alexander
76. Gutsy pilot Ray Holmes
77. Classic-maker Ernest Lehman
78. Wartime gypsy Frances Langford
79. Easy dinner creator Gerry Thomas
80. The very healthy Richard Doll
81. Good politician Jay Hammond
82. First Blue Angel Roy Voris
83. Typecast film maker David Loeb Weiss
84. Down and dirty Ronald F. Scott
85. Presidential doctor Daniel Ruge
86. Woman Kathy Wilson
87. Dancer Murphy Matthews Jr
88. Laser inventor Gordon Gould
89. Extremely equal Constance Baker Motley
90. The hospitable John van Hengel
91. TV writer Devery Freeman
92. The very open Alexander Yakovlev
93. Extraordinary doctor Bill Inman
94. Artist R.C. Gorman
95. Management guru Peter F. Drucker
96. Consequential truthteller Ralph Edwards
97. Sensei Noriyuki Morita
98. The bosomy buddy Wendie Jo Sperber
99. Classic clothier Peter Haas Sr.
100. Friend of the Earth Richard Sandbrook
101. High achiever Paul Williams
102. Healer Bradford Cannon
103. Networker Evelyn Fowler Grubb
104. Vietnam hero Hugh Thompson Jr
105. The jazzy Bob Weinstock
106. The Good-hearted W. Hunter Simpson
107. “Grandpa” Al Lewis
108. The Boopalicious Myron Waldman
109. Southern chef Edna Lewis
110. Head Cowsill Billy Cowsill
111. The tireless Peter Snow
112. Chicken evangelist Robert C. Baker
113. The findable Paul Flaherty
114. The sudsy Gloria Monty
115. Gem in the Rough Frederick H. Pough
116. Japan expert Otis Cary
117. E-patient Tom Ferguson
118. The non-bionic Bruce A. Peterson
119. Barehanded Harold Raymond Kingsmill Bates
120. The well pinned-up Joyce Brand
121. Non-smoker Heather Crowe
122. Southern desegrationist Hugh B Patterson Jr
123. Swinger Eddie Malone
124. Olympic trailblazer Neroli Fairhall
125. Staying in Vegas Manuel J. Cortez
126. The Ever-hungry Robert Carrier
127. Productive adult Lou Dantzler
128. Patients rights pioneer Zelda Foster
129. Arizona photographer Ray Manley
130. Master Navy diver Carl M. Brashear
131. The bookish Frederick G. Kilgour
132. Well-belted James Van Allen
133. Maori queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu
134. Research biologist Vernon M. Ingram
135. Rocketman Rocco Petrone
136. Women’s rights crusader Estelle R. Ramey
137. Indoor environmentalist P. Ole Fanger
138. School hostage Emily Keyes
139. Public servant Joseph Kauffman
140. Comedy writer Jerry Belson
141. News explainer Christopher Glenn
142. Disguised friend Arthur Peacocke
143. Big-picture thinker Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
144. Grand Master Jack Williamson
145. Buchenwald savior Jack Werber
146. Anti-smoker Allen Carr
147. Madame Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
148. Vinyl legend Ahmet Ertegun
149. Trauma surgeon Robert Freeark
150. American scholar Seymour Lipset