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Until I read Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels I recalled the expression the naked truth as having derived from an old Roman fable (perhaps from Horace, around 50 B.C.) about Truth and Falsehood emerging from a swim together, Falsehood stealing Truth's clothers.
The LAT lead explains that the Lawrence disinterment comes in response to a rising outcry over evidence that Lawrence didn't have a right to an Arlington plot because he invented his story of being on a Merchant Marine ship, the Horace Bushnell , that was torpedoed while ferrying emergency supplies to the Russians during World War II.
We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about "laboring to bring forth a mouse," or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.
Some other Johnnies neglected by quiz participants--Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares), Johnny One Note (Rodgers and Hart), Johnny Too Bad (a swell song from The Harder They Come ), and this line of dialogue from the 1959 racially charged English murder mystery Sapphire , spoken, if I recall correctly, by Horace Big Cigar (Robert Adams): "We got plenty Johnnies, boss."
Thanks in part to his "wandering eye and wickie-wickie ways," he has lost his wife, Jessie (Farrah Fawcett), and two children (he calls them his "beauties") to Horace (Todd Allen), a gentle, callow minister who seems to be, in every way, Sonny's opposite.