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FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:27 pm
by etaoin22
B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:29 pm
by mellytu74
Oh, boy -- I need to remember the spelling.

David Wallichinsky?

It's a fine, fine reference book.

The Education of....

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:29 pm
by silvercamaro
David Wallechinsky

Education

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:30 pm
by SportsFan68
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

I give up. Wallace.

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
Education

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:31 pm
by frogman042
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
Wallichinsky or something like that

No idea - Joy? (as in the joy of yiddish)

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:31 pm
by christie1111
Sorry Team, don't have either of these.

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:33 pm
by secondchance
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
B Wallichinsky (sp?)

G deflowering

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:35 pm
by T_Bone0806
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)
Seymour Bluddopingz
G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
Education[/b]

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:37 pm
by kayrharris
I know about Irving Wallace and he had a book called "The Chapman Report"...
but I can't remember his son's name!!


Education

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:37 pm
by etaoin22
Wallechinsky.

also Book of Lists, People's Almanac, Complete Book of the Winter Olympics


and no doubt many others

Education.

they call this ESL these days

19-31 or so, maybe closer, depends

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:20 pm
by ulysses5019
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
W.....something


Education.....

Re: FNGD Q4 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 2008 BACK TO THE OLYMPICS

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:25 pm
by peacock2121
etaoin22 wrote:B - Irving Wallace, drugstore novelist of the sixties, is the father of a wrirter of Olympian sized reference books.

Especially a book about the Summer Olympics.

Who took back and uses his zeyda's (grandfather's) last name, which had been Americanized by father Irving.

Name this Summer Olympic book writer, (I will settle for the last name)

G - Leo Rosten Americanized his name as Leonard Q Ross for this book, and I infer for the stories as originally in The New Yorker.

"The ___________ of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N"

Fill in the blank
LOL - this is my favorite kinda DrCanadaGuy question.

My head is spinning and I am laughing.