"[T]he entire nine yards" [3/62]; possible a couple earlier ones (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Is Ferd Holtmann still alive? As you may recall, the 1962 "whole nine
yards"
> author, Robert Wegner, as reported by his daughter, thought the phrase
> referred to the unprecedentedly-productive nine WW II shipyards.
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> I don't know anything about Ferd Holtmann other than that he was on
> staff at KHHG and wrote several pieces each month for the magazine (at
> least, several that bore his name).  For what it's worth, a Ferd
> Holtmann was Sports Director at WFKY (radio) in Frankfort in 1959;
> perhaps he also moonlighted for the Department of Fish and Wildlife
> Resources.  (I suspect that another Ferd Holtmann -- more
> specifically, J. Ferd Holtmann, who was associated with railroading --
> was the father of the fellow who wrote for KHHG.)
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In 1956, a Ferd Holtmann was on the staff of radio station WSRW in
Hillsboro OH (only 30 or so miles north of KY).

The 1960 directory for Frankfort KY lists
"Holtmann Ferd publicity specialists Ky State Fish & Wildlife Resources
r214 Briar Cliff"

J. Ferd Holtmann's widow (Edna J.) died in Covington KY in Nov 1992.
The obit says that she is survived by a son, Ferd E. Holtmann of Mesa
AZ.

Directories as recent as 1997 list him as still there.  I can provide
that contact info off-list for anyone who cares (although it may not be
current).

In 1993 he married Lynda L. Schaidt, of Florida.

A 6/25/2012 article in the _Sierra Vista Herald_ (AZ) mentions a Ferd
Holtmann that bought a used car.
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