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From: rose@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: F. Leghorn
Message-ID: <1498@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:54:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 15:54:46 1985
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Reply-To: rose@Shasta.UUCP (David Rosenblum)
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In article <2766@randvax.UUCP> boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren) writes:
>
>> I will drink a toast in
>> very good whiskey to anyone who knows who Foghorn is indeed
>> based on.
>
>
>Isn't he based on a real senator back in the 40's named
>Cleghorn?  He was from the south and sounded a lot like
>the big chicken.


No, there was not a REAL senator back in the 40's named Cleghorn, but
there was a character on Fred Allen's radio show ("Allen's Alley") in
the 40's named Claghorn, I beleive, who was a Southern senator; this is the 
character Foghorn Leghorn was based on.  The show featured an odd
assortment of regulars, but I can't remember any more of their names.

-- David.	(rose@su-shasta.arpa)