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...born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
...soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...
...years later the team of Kaye & Eisen was still no farther than the borsch summer-resort circuit in the Catskills. Here, besides being straight entertainers, they were also what is known as "tumulers"-aides of the hotel manager who, on rainy days, were sent out to "make with the tumult" and, by distracting disgruntled guests, prevent them from checking out. Kaye & Eisen did their tumuling by chasing each other through the halls with meat cleavers, jumping into fish ponds...
Mouth v. Brain. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's chief of staff, forthwith called a press conference of his own. Growling that General Eisen hower would tolerate no insubordination, General Smith then spoke as one professional soldier practically never speaks of another: "[Patton's] mouth does not al ways carry out the functions of his brain. George acts on the theory that it is better to be damned than say nothing-that some publicity is better than none...
Forgetting Is So Easy. General Eisen hower himself realized that "deNazification" was easier said than done. Said he in a report on the occupation this week (see FOREIGN NEWS) : "It is not easy for the local Military Government Officer to dismiss the only waterworks engineer in his city because he was an active Nazi. The decision must be made, however. . . ." The hard fact was that many U.S. officers in Germany refused to make the decision. Many believed, with George Patton, that there was no point in trying to make...