Wow, much too young. RIP
That is surprising. As one who was watching TV in the 1950s, I remember more than that. I checked and confirmed that there was only one season of 39 episodes of The Honeymooners, but see that Joyce Randolph also was in 79 episodes of the Jackie Gleason Show as the character Trixie Norton. I'm sure some of my memories are from those. I think the Honeymooners was a recurring skit that was a part of the Jackie Gleason variety show. Variety shows were very common back in those days.
Later played for the Phillies. He and Pete Rose got into a fight in the 1973 NLCS but would later be teammates. Kind of like Jim Thome and Rheal Cormier years later. According to Wikipedia, Rose and Harrelson avoided discussion of the fight unlike who Thome and Cormier who discussed it publicly together before reporters and at the end of doing so, laughed it off and hugged it out.
Arno Penzias, codiscovered Big Bang's afterglow. On a personal note, his wife was a guidance counselor at the middle school I attended. I was aware that her husband was a Nobel Prize winner but I never really knew what for until now.
Arno Penzias was one of the “eminences grise” that advised the establishment of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology - where I worked for that organization’s first couple of decades. I’m getting old, they’re all passing on (Penzias, Baker, David). Thankfully, Shirley Jackson is still with us.
Good memories.
RIP.
No doubt. Not sure they got along though that might have been good for the team too. He was originally imposed on Charlie by Gillick and obviously would have been the next manager had Charlie gotten fired; once it became obvious that wasn't going to happen and the Phillies also declined to pay him better, he walked. But they still brought Shawn in (originally as a player) in 2013.
Williams was one of three eyebrow-raising coaching staff hires that offseason. Along with Williams, the Phillies added Davey Lopes and Art Howe all of whom had prior managerial experience. Howe never suited up, subsequently taking a position with the Rangers instead. Those hirings were considered a clear shot across Manuel's bow as Manuel was an inherited mager (hired by Wade), was regarded as a managerial lightweight by both fans and many inside the organization, his chief advocate in Thome was gone and the fanbase's frustration was growing considerably as the then-postseason drought reached thirteen years. But, Manuel survived and thrived and both Williams and Lopes ultimately moved on over money. Both, however, proved to be valuable coaches during their time here. I agree that Williams may have been the "bad cop" to Manuel's "good cop". My most enduring memory of him was when that sudden violent thunderstorm came over Coors Field in 2007 and the Phillies players all rushed out of the dugout to assist the field crew in distress (a number of them ended up under the tarp) and Williams was out there directing the effort, barking instructions at everyone while the Phillies players helped to straighten things out with the tarp.
I didn't realize just how successful a manager he was (910-790), taking two Red Sox teams to the Postseason. He was definitely one of those old school types, however, and the 2004 Astros players found him too much to take and pretty much rolled over and played dead on him (like the Phillies players were finding Bowa too much to take that same season and were likewise rolling over on Bowa). After the Astros fired him at the All-Star break, they exploded going 48-26 the rest of the way--including two sweeps of the Phillies which deepened the Fightin's season-killing slide which probably ended the Bowa era--and went all the way to the NLCS and lost to the Cardinals in seven games. As a manager, the game and the next generation of players had passed him by but he had a good last act with the Phillies. Thank you and R.I.P..
