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2 unusual facts about Harry H. Goode


Harry Goode

Harry H. Goode (1909–1960), American computer engineer and systems engineer

Harry H. Goode

Harry Goode worked on the research frontiers of Management Science, Operations Research and Systems engineering in connection with organisms as systems, the reactions of groups, models of human preference, the experimental exploration of human observation, detection, and decision making, and the analysis and synthesis of speech.


Alexander D. Goode

On February 2, 1943, the German submarine U-223 spotted the convoy on the move and closed with the ships, firing a torpedo which struck the Dorchester shortly after midnight.

Brooklyn, Illinois

In 2002, work revealed extensive prehistoric artifacts, so many that the researchers named the site "Janey B. Goode" after the popular Chuck Berry song, "Johnny B. Goode".

David Goode

David R. Goode, retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation

David R. Goode

He is also known for ending the steam program of the Class J 611 and Class A 1218 in 1994.

Duckwalk

The duckwalk was introduced to a new audience when the character Marty McFly did the duckwalk on stage while playing Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" in the movie Back to the Future.

Earth Angel

In Back to the Future, fictional band Marvin Berry and The Starlighters (with Marty McFly, the film's main character, sitting in on guitar) played the song during the "Enchantment Under the Sea" high-school dance, along with Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode".

Eugenics Record Office

Both its founder, Charles Benedict Davenport, and its director, Harry H. Laughlin were major contributors to the field of eugenics in the United States.

Harry H. Dale

Dale was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, to January 6, 1919, when he resigned having been appointed judge of the magistrate's court in 1919.

Harry H. Halsell

He and his second wife had two sons and four daughters, including author Grace Halsell.

Harry H. Johnson

In 1944 he was promoted to Major General and made commander of the all-black 2nd Cavalry Division, which was dismounted and performed various service and support functions in the North African Campaign from February, 1943 to May, 1944.

Harry H. Laughlin

The Reichstag of Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in 1933, closely based on Laughlin's model.

At least one contemporary scientist, bacterial geneticist Herbert Spencer Jennings, condemned Laughlin's statistics as invalid because they compared recent immigrants to more settled immigrants.

Harry H. Peterson

He was elected Ramsey County Attorney to serve 1923–1924 and subsequently served as the Minnesota Attorney General during the Farmer-Labor administration of Floyd B. Olson, 1933–1936.

Harry H. Pratt

Pratt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919).

Harry H. Seldomridge

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Lafayette Leake

He was then on Chuck Berry Is on Top; Leake (not Berry's longtime bandmate Johnnie Johnson) played the prominent piano on the classic original rendition of "Johnny B. Goode".

New Birth of Freedom Council

Another feature of the Mall is a reflection area where Scouts can read a bronze plaque bearing the words of Rudyard Kiplings's poem If— The recently renovated indoor chapel at the top of the mall was dedicated in memory of Rabbi Goode, one of the Four Chaplains from the USAT Dorchester.

Philip R. Goode

He led a project to build the world’s most capable solar telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) at Big Bear Lake.

Ram It Down

The band recorded a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", intended for inclusion on the soundtrack for the 1988 Anthony Michael Hall comedy film Johnny Be Good; the song found its way onto Ram It Down and was the album's first single.


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