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  4 hits by Bill Schenley, Exuma, Jazz Vulture and Walking Dead Dude
5 points
 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  László Csizsik-Csatáry  
     
 

1 hit by WEP
7 points (2 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
 

There are people who were successful in their jobs and will never be forgotten. But, sometimes, they use their talents for wrong. Those people should be forgotten as soon as possible. One of them is mentioned here.

Born in 1915, he started his career in 1941 as a military and police commander. Not much is known about him before that.

As a Royal Hungarian Gendarmery commander in Košice during World War II, the former police officer worked for Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust," who ghettoized more than 440.000 Hungarian Jews between April 1944 and 1945. The Hungarian assistant himself is made responsible for the deportation of 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz.

After the war, he fled. In 1948 he was sentenced in absentia to death by a court in Czechoslovakia, a sentence that became unenforceable after the country abolished the death penalty in 1990.

Finally, he was listed on the "Operation Last Chance" list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The list was an initiative launched in 2002 to track down former Nazis. He led the "Most Wanted Nazis" list in 2012.

In 2013 he joined the AO Deadpool list from Team WEP as well, having been tracked down at the age of 99, bringing 7 points.

PS: I do not feel ashamed for picking him. As you've read, I've omitted writing his name. His victims are nameless as well. May they rest in peace.

— WEP

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Eydie Gormé  
     
 

5 hits by Bill Schenley, Busgal, Direcorbie, Ray Arthur and Roxanne Wiggs
5 points

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Jack Germond  
     
 

1 hit by Pat Peeve
10 points (5 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Marian McPartland  
     
 

1 hit by Drunkasaskunk
7 points (2 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Ted Post  
     
 

2 hits by Brad and Roxanne Wiggs
5 points (2 for age, 3 for duet)

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Julie Harris  
     
 

1 hit by Grim McGraw
10 points (5 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
 

A solo for Grim McGraw, his first. And maybe his first update. A couple of magical firsts.

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Julie Harris, the delicate yet steely grande dame of the stage. The unprepossessing anti-diva who became the most honored performer in the history of Broadway. She won five Tonys for Best Actress and another for lifetime achievement. She also won two Emmys and was nominated for an Oscar. Not bad for a woman whose mother never wanted her to pursue an acting career.

Mother Harris was a trained nurse and a socialite who wanted her daughter to become a debutante. Young Julie's interest in performing was a way of rebelling against her mother. An ex-husband of Ms. Harris once said: "Julie was a great disappointment to her mother. She wasn't pretty, didn't wear the right clothes, couldn't find dates, and she had no intention of becoming a debutante. As a defense, Julie escaped into acting. As an actress, she could be anyone she wanted to be, and her mother couldn't stop her."

And become anyone she did, from Joan of Arc to Florence Nightingale, from Charlotte Brontë to Queen Victoria, from Mary Todd Lincoln to Emily Dickinson. Outside of the theatre, she was known to most for playing opposite James Dean in East of Eden and as Val's mother on Knots Landing. She will also now forever be known to me as my first solo hit. They say you never forget your first, and so I will never forget you, Julie Harris. Thanks for the years of fine dramatic performances, thanks for the 10 points, and please take the time to tell your mother "I told you so!"

— Grim McGraw

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Larry Pennell  
     
 

1 hit by Buford
10 points (5 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
     
  Skull Line  
     
   
  Seamus Heaney  
     
 

1 hit by Jim Thornton
13 points (8 for age, 5 for solo)

 
     
     
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