Word: hesselberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...Nazi Germany while he was Ambassador to England on the eve of World War II. Similar rumors spread that in the heat of Nixon's California senatorial campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, he sneered that she was married to Actor Melvyn Douglas, "whose real name is Hesselberg."* New York's Negroes (980,000) generally vote Democratic, but Kennedy lost some support among Negro leaders by putting Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, may have won some back now that Harlem's top politico, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, is campaigning for him. Nixon gained ground in Harlem...