Word: birnbaum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BIRNBAUM...
...great scientific conquest by their nation, poured across the Moscow River to greet the aeronauts. Pilot George Prokofiev mounted the gondola, harangued the crowd with a lecture in which he credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared the balloon's scientific apparatus had worked perfectly. They found the sky at 11 mi. altitude a deep, soft violet ; they had been unable to detect the earth's curvature...
...each other and to their friends George Burns and Gracie Allen are "Nat" and "Googie." George was born Nat Birnbaum, one of twelve children of a Manhattan East Side clothing manufacturer. At 11 he was on the stage, giving imitations of stage stars he had never seen. Gracie danced jigs, played brogue parts up & down the Pacific Coast in an Irish troupe. Ten years ago George Burns and Gracie Allen teamed up in vaudeville in Boonton, N. J. at $10 a performance. At first it was Gracie who played the exasperated "straight" to George's fatuous lines. Audiences awarded...