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That career was a capsule history of show business. Benny Kubelsky, a poor Jewish kid from Waukegan, III., was something of a prodigy on the violin; his father, a small-time haberdasher, entertained hopes of a concert career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status...
...Illinois Waukegan...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam...
...have endured a week such as no nation should live through: a time of violence and tragedy." So said the President of the U.S. last week, as flames flickered above two score American communities. From Albany, N.Y., and Albion, Mich., to Waterbury, Conn., and Waukegan, Ill., the nation's black ghettos shuddered in paroxysms of rock-throwing, fire-bombing and looting...
...seemed to say that a dozen or so people could be killed in almost any city, any night, by the purest chance. In the past three years, racial riots have flared in some 50 U.S. cities, from Harlem to Hough, Chicago to Cincinnati, Boston to Buffalo, Watts to Waukegan. Most began with a vagrant spark, and often it takes nothing more than that...