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Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please.
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.
A satirical poem by Franklin Pierce Adams with the title "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World)" also exists. [ 5 ] In 2005, author David Helvarg introduced the concept that the punishment may be a form of retaliation , in a piece he wrote for Grist Magazine , "Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office ...
The tallest unsuccessful presidential candidate (who is also the tallest of all presidential candidates) is Winfield Scott, who stood at 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) and lost the 1852 election to Franklin Pierce, who stood at 5 ft 10 in (178 cm).
John Adams. Top Rank: No. 9 ... An InsideGov story on the most underrated presidents finds Polk is one of the more undervalued commanders-in-chief. ... President Franklin Pierce has never gotten ...
John Adams and Abigail Adams were only separated in ... Franklin Pierce went on to serve in the Mexican-American war, and upon his return home, they lived a quiet life in Concord, New Hampshire ...
Harriet Chalmers Adams was born in Stockton, California to Alexander Chalmers and Frances Wilkens. [2] As a child, she enjoyed numerous horseback adventures with her father, including a yearlong trip from Oregon to Mexico through the Sierra Nevada Mountains when she was 14. [3] On October 5, 1899, she married Franklin Pierce Adams, an ...
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday.