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...mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Gene Barry, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop...
...that poets themselves have ever avoided politics as subject matter. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, all found ways to hail or rage against kings and governments through their work. Yeats, unpolitical as anyone could look in his fluffy neckties, wrote stinging political lines. As did Robert Lowell. As does Seamus Heaney. W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939 is a beautiful muddle of a poem on Europe in the shadow of war. Bertolt Brecht's To Posterity, about Germany under the Nazis, is clear as a bell...
...Lucy to notable moments like the Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show), all of them available for screening by visitors to its trim building in midtown Manhattan. The museum also schedules regular exhibitions devoted to major performers, creators and programs from broadcasting's past. Among recent subjects: Milton Berle, Rod Serling and Masterpiece Theatre...
...barber, Milton Pitts, reports that when Ronald Reagan took office his hair was about 25% gray. It is now 30% gray. The President has added a second hearing aid in the past year or so. He uses three combinations for his eyes: hard contact lenses for normal activities, half glasses over the contacts for reading, and a single contact lens (left eye) for giving speeches on podiums where he needs to focus on the audience and the TelePrompTer at the same time. Reagan still has his suits made with buttons on the flies. He refuses to wear makeup for television...
...widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first read that tax rates could be greatly lowered if loopholes were closed...