Word: duddelson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Patrick Robinson, Ph.D., a sometime college professor who grew up with Jackie (and was later-as Bookshelf Robinson-given frequent mention on Gleason's TV shows, along with such other neighborhood immortals as Duddy Duddelson, Crazy Guggenham, and Fatso Fogarty), remembers Jackie as "a big hero in the neighborhood-because of the pool, and also because he was so funny. He had a slouchy mannerism, a duck-waddling walk." Gleason's mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son's comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with...
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