hobo synonymous with panhandler or beggar (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Emperor of the North" (originally released as "Emperor of the North Pole")
was, shall we say, only "inspired" by the writings of "A. No. 1."

JL

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > This website is devoted to "A No. 1".   He was a hobo (or tramp -- it
> seems
> > to use "hobo" and "tramp" interchangeably), active early in the 20th
> > C, and famous
> > enough to be named in one of Louis Armstrong's records ("Hobo, You
> Can't
> > Ride This Train").   His right name was Leon Ray Livingston.  He wrote
> and
> > published a number of books.
> > http://www.angelfire.com/folk/famoustramp/
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> > A friend of mine is the head of the Boston chapter of the Industrial
> > Workers of the World and is collecting books by hoboes.  I don't know
> > whether he has any by A No. 1,  though he does have one illustrated by
> > Ernie Bushmiller.
> (http://www.drawger.com/kroninger/?article_id=12528)
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> The book was from 1930, which was while Bushmiller was doing the "Fritzi
> Ritz" comic strip ("Nancy" didn't come along until later), and after he
> was an illustrator on Houdini's (ghostwritten) syndicated "Red Magic"
> newspaper supplement section.
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> The actor Lee Marvin played A No. 1 in the movie "Emperor of the North"
> (1973), about hoboes during the depression.  Ernest Borgnine was his
> adversary, a railroad worker who doesn't like hoboes riding his train.
> It also has Elisha Cook Jr, who always looks like a gunsel, no matter
> the role.
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