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In the 1980s, Hollywood star Kirk Douglas mentioned in an interview with Johnny Carson that his father was a ragman in New York and "young people nowadays don't know what is ragman." [ 24 ] The BBC 's popular 1960s-70s television comedy Steptoe and Son helped to maintain the rag-and-bone man's status in British folklore, but by the 1980s they ...
"The Hangman" is a poem written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 and first published in 1954. [1] The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled".
Ragman (Rory Regan) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.He was originally created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Joe Kubert in 1976. . Originally presented as a man of Irish descent, the character was revised to have Jewish heritage (his family name originally being Reganiewicz) and a connection to the Golem of Prague (a figure of Jewish folklore) in a ...
Ragman (character), a fictional DC Comics mystic vigilante; The Ragman's Daughter, a 1972 film; The Ragman's Son, the first autobiography by actor Kirk Douglas; Ragman Rolls, the collection of instruments by which the nobility and gentry of Scotland subscribed allegiance to King Edward I of England
Kris Alan Hemensley (born 26 April 1946) is an English-Australian poet who has published around 20 collections of poetry. Through the late 1960s and '70s he was involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, and edited the literary magazines Our Glass, The Ear in a Wheatfield, and others.
Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) [1] [2] was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. [3] [4] [5] He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Wangerin was born in Portland, Oregon, where his father was a Lutheran pastor. He was the oldest of seven children. The family moved often, so Walter grew up in various locations including Shelton, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Edmonton, Alberta, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) is a kid who runs away from an orphanage on the Lower East Side in New York after a fire breaks out. He ends up taking refuge with Max (Max Davidson), a lonely junk man who is down on his luck after being cheated out of a patent fortune by some unscrupulous lawyers.