2008 AO Deadpool Update: Jack Weil
Hyfler/Rosner
I'll always remember my prized "smiley" pocket cowboy shirt
with the snap buttons. I got it for Christmas when I was a
child living in Minneapolis in the late 1950's. It's the
coolest shirt I've ever had. Little did I know at the time
that the western style cowboy shirt had been invented by a
gentleman from Indiana named Jack Arnold Weil. He had
arrived in Denver as a salesman for the Paris Garter
Company. The garters were used to keep socks from falling
around the ankles. (Those were pre-elastic days.) Jack Weil
fell in love with the wide open spaces of Denver and stayed.
He started his own company, Rockmount Western Wear and began
selling his signature snap button shirts. Perfect for
cowboys whose shirts have a tendency to get snagged on
sagebrush or cow horns. Perfect for cowboys who weren't
likely to sew on new buttons or mend tears.
He learned fast not to count on cowboys to buy them, since
they didn't always have money. Instead, he appealed to the
cowboy in everyone else. Little kids playing cowboys and
Indians. Celebrities like Reagan, who wore the Premium
Blue Flannel Plaid, and Bob Dylan, who liked the Pink
Gabardine. Or Redford, who liked his plaid in rayon and
Clapton, who preferred the diamond snap number. The stars
of Brokeback Mountain wore (and removed) Weil shirts and all
the delegates of the Colorado delegation had red, white and
blue numbers at the Democratic Convention a couple of weeks
back. As long as the company's been around, and Jack Weil
was 107 when he died last month, every article of clothing
has been made in the United States of America.
Jack Weil, a Jewish boy from Indiana who invented the cowboy
look, was the oldest CEO in the country. Exuma remembered
the snap shirt from his childhood and didn't forget to put
Weil on the list. He gets 1 point for the hit and 5 for the
solo. Total: 6. Nice hit and update, Ex.
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PLAYER - POINTS - HITS
Ed V - 163 - Fourteen
Bill Schenley - 105 - Nine
Acctorp - 102 - Nine
Direcorbie - 97 - Nine
Raven - 96 - Eight
Denise - 68 - Seven
DGH - 67 - Six
Philip - 64 - Eight
Dead Batteries - 59 - Five
Dead People Server - 59 - Five
Buford - 52 - Nine
Yersinia Pestis - 51 - Three
Mort Chewary - 48 - Nine
Erik - 45 - Six
Fireball - 42 - Eight
Charlene - 41 - Seven
Ray Arthur - 41 - Seven
Garrett - 41 - Five
Exuma - 40 - Eight
JohnnyB - 40 - Five
Mark - 40 - Three
Undertaker - 38 - Five
DrunkAsASkunk - 38 - Four
Amelia - 34 - Four
The Wiz - 33 - Eight
Busgal - 33 - Six
Lurker3791 - 30 - Six
Abby - 28 - Four
Kathypig - 27 - Four
Deepstblu - 25 - Six
James Neibaur - 25 - Four
Chipmunk Roasting - 25 - Three
Constant Irritant - 24 - Three
King Daevid - 23 - Four
Moldy Oldies - 23 - Four
Another Lurker - 21 - Three
Brigid - 21 - Three
Eternity Tours - 20 - Four
Excard - 19 - Four
JD - 19 - Four
Nova Cassius - 19 - Two
Chaptal - 16 - Two
Kathi - 14 - Four
Allen Kirshner - 14 - Three
Bushwhacker - 13 - Two
Jazz Vulture - 13 - Two
Sis - 13 - Two
Team Bubba - 12 - Two
???Guest - 10 - Two
Allezblancs - 10 - One
Scubama - 8 - Four
Wendy - 7 - Two
Kixco - 6 - One
Louisiana Lou - 6 - One
Mister Selina - 4 - Two
RH Draney - 2 - One
HITS:
1. Princess Galyani Vadhana
2. Choi Yo-sam
3. Ken Nelson
4. Milt Dunnell
5. George Moore
6. Rod Allen
7. Maila Nurmi
8. Johnny Grant
9. Sir Edmund Hillary
10. Brad Renfro
11. Bobby Fischer
12. Georgia Frontiere
13. Suzanne Pleshette
14. Don Wittman
15. Suharto
16. Gordon Hinckley
17. Archbishop Christodoulos
18. Allan Melvin
19. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
20. Earl Butz
21. Phyllis Whitney
22. Harry R. Landis
23. Roy Scheider
24. Smoky Dawson
25. Alain Robbe-Grillet
26. Baba Amte
27. Lydia Shum
28. Peter Pianto
29. Johnnie Carr
30. William F. Buckley, Jr.
31. Myron Cope
32. Jeff Healey
33. Bob Howsam
34. Philip Rabinowitz
35. Giuseppe Di Stefano
36. J.I. Albrecht
37. Bill Brown
38. Mikey Dread
39. Arthur C. Clarke
40. Paul Scofield
41. Don't mention his name and his name will pass on
42. Richard Widmark
43. Jules Dassin
44. Charlton Heston
45. Ollie Johnston
46. Danny Federici
47. Humphrey Lyttelton
48. Jimmy Giuffre
49. Henry Brant
50. Albert Hoffman
51. Edward Lorenz
52. John Wheeler
53. Ted Key
54. Eddy Arnold
55. Irena Sendlerowa
56. June Travis
57. Penny Banner
58. Dick Martin
59. J.R. Simplot
60. Sydney Pollack
61. Earle Hagen
62. Harvey Korman
63. Yves Saint Laurent
64. Bo Diddley
65. Dino Risi
66. Jim McKay
67. Cyd Charisse
68. Jean Delannoy
69. George Carlin
70. Dody Goodman
71. Clay Felker
72. Jesse Helms
73. Evelyn Keyes
74. Michael DeBakey
75. Tony Snow
76. Bobby Murcer
77. Jo Stafford
78. Dolores Costa (Dercy Goncalves)
79. Estelle Getty
80. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
81. Lou Teicher
82. Leroy Sievers
83. Jerry Wexler
84. Maudie Cecilia Hopkins
85. Ronnie Drew
86. Henri Cartan
87. Jack Weil
MWB
> Guest updater Exuma writes:
Great update EXUMA
Mark