ABC had Ted Koppel for their late night guy, and Drew Carey became their prime-time guy. Bruce Helford was the show's executive producer from its start in 1995 to its end in 2004, as was Drew.
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionised the industry worldwide.
The meaning fool, simpleton is intended in the song title  Yankee Doodle , originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning to swindle or to make a fool of. The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb to dawdle, which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.