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...known as Gallagher & Glass, achieved "more than just passing notability on the old Pantages and Orpheum circuits." They are descended from "an astonishingly long and motley double-file of professional entertainers"; Les's grandfather, for instance, was "a quite famous Polish-Jewish carnival clown named Zozo, who had a penchant???right up to the end, one necessarily gathers?for diving from immense heights into small containers of water." The seven children, too, have been professionals; they were all prodigies, and they all appeared, at one time or another, on a radio kiddy-quiz called, slyly enough, It's a Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SONNY | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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