Reihan: The Best Resume of All Time?

Here's a candidate: Tom Billings, a man who passed away recently. As you can see from the excerpts below, he had a very full life.

CHAIRMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, and CO-FOUNDER
Assurant Software Inc.
Alameda CA
Designer of StrokSavr system software and RightWord Diction-Checker application software. Holder of U.S. Patent 5,682,471 - System for preventing loss of work product in the event of personal computer mishap.

So far so boring ...

PRESIDENT
The Mother Earth News
Hendersonville, NC

Hmmm ...

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE
The National Rifle Association on America, Inc.
Washington DC
Planned and managed turn-around of financially stricken organization. Right-sized, reorganized and refocused all operations. Coordinated World Sports Center joint venture with U.S. Olympic Committee.

Getting fishy ...

EDITORIAL BUSINESS MANAGER
The National Enquirer
Lantana, FL

ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
MANAGER OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, BUDGETS AND PLANNING
Ramada Inns Inc.
Phoenix AZ
International hotel, restaurant and hospitality chain. Directed its strategic planning and its computer systems and operations worldwide.

Alright ...

CHIEF OF CORPORATE STAFF
CORPORATE CONTROLLER
DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
GENERAL MANAGER, Copley News Service
VICE PRESIDENT, Copley International Corporation
Copley Newspapers Inc.
La Jolla CA
Led industry and IBM group in pioneering of word processing.

Impressive!

INSTRUCTOR, Civil Affairs/Military Government School.
SYSTEMS SPECIALIST, Army Audit Agency.
United States Army
Fort Gordon GA and Milwaukee WI
Authored Military Field Manuals and audited diverse defense contractor companies.

ASSISTANT TO FINANCIAL VICE PRESIDENT
General Motors Corporation
New York NY
Wrote multi-topic proposals sent to Board of Directors over his signature. Staffed $325 million public offering and Congressional hearings.

GENERAL MANAGER
Music Circus Inc.
Lambertville NJ
Summer musical theater operating company and franchisees.

Could this possibly be true?

Then there is the section on "Voice Talent." He performs the following impersonations under the name "J.C. Abell."

Tom Bosley - Ed Asner - Robert Duvall - William Conrad - Charles Durning - Jose Ferrar - Sidney Greenstreet - Gene Hackman - Derek Jacoby - Alec Guiness - John Housman - Raymond Burr - Karl Malden - Harvey Korman - James Mason - Charles Laughton - John Thaw - Walter Matthau - Leslie Nielsen - Carroll O'Conner - Claude Rains - Peter Sellers - David Suchet - George C. Scott - Rod Steiger - Peter Ustinov - Lee J. Cobb - Alan Alda - James Coburn - Lionel Barrymore - Broderick Crawford - Marlon Brando - Joel Grey - Ben Kingsley - Albert Finney - Preston Foster - Ben Gazzara - James Garner - Brian Donlevy - Carl Reiner - Alfred Hitchcock - Hal Holbrook - John Huston - Jack Nicholson - Boris Karloff - Burgess Meredith - Sam Neill - Jonathan Pryce - Ralph Bellamy - Anthony Quinn - Nigel Bruce - E.G. Marshall - Monty Woolley - Donald Sutherland - Rob Reiner - Victor Buona - Richard Widmark - Walter Huston - Orson Wells - Dick Van Dyke - Keenan Wynn - Robert De Niro - Peter Falk - Andy Griffith - Ernest Borgnine and other similar character actors.