Foul play? Curtiss Candy Co. always claimed that its Baby Ruth bar was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, not baseball player Babe Ruth. But the Library and Archives of New Hampshire's Political Tradition reports there's evidence to suggest otherwise.

First, Ruth Cleveland died of diphtheria in 1904, 17 years before the candy bar was introduced. Second, it's a rather striking coincidence that a company would choose to name a product after the dead daughter of a former president in the very same year that slugger Babe Ruth became one of the most famous people in America. Third, when Babe Ruth tried to market a candy bar of his own through a Curtiss competitor -- called the Babe Ruth Home Run Bar -- Curtiss stopped him by court order.

Candy lovers horrified by creepy names: Oh Henry!, Mr. Goodbar, Milky Way, Butterfinger and Snickers all made their debut in the 1920s -- but so did candy bars called Fat Emmas, Vegetable Sandwich and Chicken Dinner. The Chicken Dinner bar, a chocolate peanut roll, actually survived until the1960s.

Original musketeer dumped: Although the musketeers created by 19th-century novelist Alexandre Dumas were Aramis, Porthos and Athos, marketing mavens at Mars Inc. dropped Aramis as a 3 Musketeers candy bar mascot in favor of another character (and actual historical figure), D'Artagnan. In the book, D'Artagnan is the hero who leads the musketeers on their exploits. "He was the one who made everything happen, but he's not really a musketeer," explains Michael Lastinger, associate professor of French at West Virginia University. At last report, snubbed musketeer Aramis was said to be looking for a new agent.

Speaking of 3 Musketeers. . . . The original 3 Musketeers had three bars in one wrapper, one vanilla, one chocolate and one strawberry. But in the 1940s, the Mars Co. opted to produce only the chocolate flavor. Are aliens, Nazis and/or Communists behind the untold story?