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Who is the Holy Cross graduate who hosts a nightly, hour-long talk show on MSNBC and was a former political aide?

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Chris Matthews hosts Hardball with Chris Matthews on the American cable television channel MSNBC, and a syndicated NBC News-produced panel program called The Chris Matthews Show on weekends. He makes frequent appearances as a consultant and observer on many NBC News programs. He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross.

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Which Holy Cross graduate was a popular character on the highly acclaimed Seinfeld series?

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John Peterman is a well-known catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates The J. Peterman Company.
Peterman graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and played third base on a Holy Cross baseball team that went to the College World Series. He also played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for three years as a second baseman.

He was parodied in the 1990s on Seinfeld, and his name became a household word as it was regularly seen by over 60 million television viewers. The J. Peterman Company had sales of over $75 million at its peak. However, after opening several retail stores, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 1999, and the brand name was sold to the Paul Harris Company.
Later, when the Paul Harris Company went out of business, Peterman was able to purchase the rights to his own name as brand with funding help from John O'Hurley, the actor who portrayed J. Peterman on Seinfeld [1]. With the help of a core group from the original company (creative director, William McCullam, marketing director Jonathan Dunavant, merchant Paula Collins and director of manufacturing Kyle Foster), Peterman's new company The J. Peterman Company is now a thriving catalog and web retailer.[citation needed]

John Peterman wrote a book about the company's trials, Seinfeld influence, and more called Peterman Rides Again (ISBN 0-7352-0199-4).

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Can you name the Holy Cross graduate who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for distinguished commentary for his sports column?

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Dave Anderson has been a sports columnist at The New York Times since November 1971, after having been a general assignment sports reporter since joining the newspaper in 1966.

Mr. Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize winner, capturing the 1981 award for distinguished commentary for his sports column.

Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Anderson was a member of the sports staff of the now defunct New York Journal-American for 11 years. Before that, he was a sports writer with the Brooklyn Eagle, which folded in 1955.

Born in Troy, N.Y. on May 6, 1929, Mr. Anderson, received a B.A. degree in English Literature from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. in 1951.

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Which Holy Cross graduate was a star player at Holy Cross and with the Boston Celtics and was a famous head coach of the Boston Celtics who led the team to a league best 68-14 record during the 1972-1973 season and was named Coach of the Year?

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After his playing days were over, Tommy Heinsohn became the Celtics' head coach. He coached the team from 1970 to 1978. He led the team to a league best 68-14 record during the 1972-1973 season and was named Coach of the Year, although Boston was upset in the playoffs. The next season Heinsohn and the Celtics won the championship, and they claimed another title in 1976. He accumulated a career coaching record of 427-263.

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Why no Clarence Thomas trivia? He is, after all, another grad.

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Good catch.

Which Holy Cross graduate is only the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall?

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Clarence Thomas is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court. Thomas's career in the Supreme Court has seen him take a conservative approach to cases while adhering to the postulates of originalism. His nomination proceedings became controversial when toward the end of the confirmation hearings it came to light that law school professor Anita Hill has accused Thomas of sexually harassing her when the two had worked together at the DOE and EEOC.

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Which Holy Cross graduate served as Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal?

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Robert C. (Bob) Wright serves as Executive Officer, Vice Chairman and Member of the Corporate Executive Office of General Electric Company of GEFS (Suisse) AG. Mr. Wright served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NBC Universal Inc., since May 2004 until February 6, 2007. In 1980, he became President of Cox Cable Communications, and rejoined GE in 1983 as Vice President of the Housewares and Audio businesses. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer ...

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Which Holy Cross graduate was the chairman and chief executive of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company from 1967 to 1986?

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Charles E. F. Millard joined Coca-Cola Bottling in 1967, he was 35 and one of the first outsiders to lead what had been a system made up of mostly small, family-run bottling companies. Mr. Millard soon introduced a team of senior managers to Coca-Cola Bottling, then Coke's largest bottler, and transformed it into a business that recorded rapid sales growth and that acquired other companies. On his watch, sales at the company grew to more than $500 million a year from $60 million.