The S.S. Minnow was not named for the fish, but for a specific person tangentially related to the series. Who was he?

Newton Minow was the head of the Federal Communications Commission in 1961, and famously referred to television as "America's vast wasteland". The producer of Gilligan's Island - Sherwood Schwartz - was not a fan of Minow, and therefore, as an inside joke, named the shipwrecked boat after him.

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