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13 unusual facts about Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch


Concerned Foreign Service Officers

Concerned Foreign Service Officers (CFSO) is a group of current and former Foreign Service and Civil Service employees of the U.S. Department of State, cofounded by William Savich and Daniel M. Hirsch, created to investigate, document and expose alleged misuse of the security clearance process by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

Emil G. Hirsch

Hirsch is the namesake of the Emil G. Hirsch Metropolitan High School of Communications, located in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood in Chicago.

George A. Hirsch

George Aaron Hirsch (born June 21, 1934), is a magazine publisher, a founder of the New York City Marathon, a candidate for United States Congress and a television commentator.

From 1984 to 1986, Hirsch was the on air host of a weekly segment on ESPN's SportsCenter called “The Runner’s Corner.

He ran much of that race with Joan Benoit, who went on to win the first women’s Olympic marathon in 1984.

James S. Hirsch

James S. Hirsch is an American journalist and best-selling author who has written extensively about sports, race, and American culture and whose most recent book is the first authorized biography of Willie Mays.

He was a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his first book was the best-selling Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter.

Michael Perlis

After Rodale Press acquired the George A. Hirsch magazine Runner from CBS Magazines in January 1987 and merged it into Runner's World magazine, Perlis was replaced as publisher of Runner's World magazine by Hirsch.

Ridgeview Classical Schools

Grades K-8 follow an enriched Core Knowledge curriculum as defined by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and outlined by the Core Knowledge Foundation.

Robert Hirsch

Robert M. Hirsch, American hydrologist, works for the U.S. Geological Survey

Robert L. Hirsch

Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy.

The Voice of the Ancient Bard

However, there is another opinion introduced by E. D. Hirsch, Jr, that the poem “belongs neither to Innocence nor Experience”.

William J. Hirsch

Although best remembered for his affiliation with King Ranch, in California he trained horses for several other prominent owners from the East Coast such as Harry Isaacs, Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, Joan and Jock Whitney's Greentree Stable as well as Edward Lasker and his wife, the actress Jane Greer.


Adolf Philipp

Two Islands (1907); music by Louis A. Hirsch, E. Ray Goetz, Harold Orlob; libretto by Adolf Philipp and Mortimer M. Theise

Crazylegs Classic

The race, first held in 1982, was named in honor of Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch.

Crazylegs Crane

Crazylegs Crane is a 16-episode made-for-television cartoon series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1978 for The All New Pink Panther Show on ABC.

Edu-macating Lucky

Luanne's boyfriend Lucky (Tom Petty) asks Peggy to tutor him so that he can get his G.E.D. According to Lucky's 'code of honor', he has to get his G.E.D. in order to be worthy of asking Luanne to marry him, much like his father and grandfather before him had to live up to their codes before they could marry.

Tijuana Toads

Crazylegs Crane also spun off to his own series for television in 1978 on ABC.

Vera Violetta

Vera Violetta was an operetta, with a libretto by Louis Stein and music by Edmund Eysler, additional music by George M. Cohan, Jean Schwartz and Louis A. Hirsch, about the flirtatious wife of a professor.

Virgil Miller

Born in Coffeen, Illinois, Miller's credits include The Phantom of the Opera (1924), Navajo (1952), Danger - Love at Work, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance, The Mummy's Curse, Crazylegs, and six Charlie Chan films.