The Israel Bond Omnibus (37 page)

Of Armed Forces Radio.

DICK CAVETT and GEORGE CARLIN

Fine young comedians.

TIMMIE ROGERS

Who made “Oh yeah!” household words—in his household.

CASSIE PASSMAN, HARRY MOSES, LEN and NORA FISCHMAN, MR. and MRS. ALBERT FINKLE, FRED and NETTIE BERK, CHARLES and BELLA GREENBERG, CHARLIE GRAY, JERRY and MARY LOU GLAZE, SAMMY MORRIS, FLORENCE GRAD LONDONER, CY and CLAIRE NEIBURG, KENNY SOLMS, PETER REMENY, KENT TALIAFERRO, SANDY TIMMERMANN, MERLE RUDERFER, ESTELLE and SIDNEY LUTZKER, JANET HELD, BOBBIE WEINER, MR. and MRS. HARRY BOTOFF, MR. and MRS. NEIL LEVENSON, MR. and MRS. ROBERT KURTZER, CHRIS WINNER, STEVE PINKUS, NANCY CARTER, MENDY, WILLIE and DAVE KRAVITZ, MR. and MRS. WILBUR J. LEVINE, STEVE SCHENKEL, DR. and MRS. MILTON PALAT, DR. and MRS. GEORGE ISAACSON, TED and SYBIL COOPER, ARNOLD and ESTELLE KIMMEL, NACHAMA LEVY, IRV and LEAH WURZEL, HARRY BLAZE, MR. and MRS. WILLIAM GERVON, SY and RUTHE LEDIS, FREDRICA KIRSCHNER.

FRAN SHANKIN

EVERETT G. WALK

Of Luden’s, Inc.

JESSE H. WALKER

Of the New York
Amsterdam News
.

BILL (Talk of Miami) SMITH

Of WKAT, Miami. Not a bad name, either.... (“You can kill me, Gestapo Chief Guttmacher, but there’ll be a lotta guys like me, Bill Smith, on the way... guys with names like Tompkins n’ DeLuca n’ Kelly n’ Weinstein... guys from Glenville, Sioux City, Brooklyn n’ Levittown... peace-lovin’ Joes who never asked for this war but when their Yankee dander’s up will show you how to finish a fight. Hear those engines overhead, Guttmacher?”)

DICK WEST

Of UPI, witty but dewlapless.

OSCAR BROWN JR.

A delightful addition to anyone’s record collection.

LES ROBERTS

Bright young writer.

HORACE GREELY McNAB

Of WBCB, Levittown, Pa.

RON POLAO

Of the unforgettable face.

LARRY DeVINE

Of the Miami
Herald
, who, alas, never knew Yudel Kaplan.

DONALD HAMILTON

Whose Matt Helm books never let the reader down.

“IAN STUART”

Sir, please kvetch out another
Satan Bug
,
Black Shrike
, etc.

JUDY EDELMAN and RUTH GOVER

ROBERT MAGAZINER JR. and JIM WILSON

Of Ocean City, N.J., officers of the first and probably last Israel Bond Fan Club.

ROGER PRICE

Of
Grump
Magazine.

JUDITH RASCOE

With admiration.

WILLIAM H., JoANN and TERRI LYNN PETTIT

Of the Burlington County, N. J.,
Times

FRED E. WALKER

General manager of KYW-TV, Philadelphia.

NORMAN, MARGIE, MARSHA, SKIP and JANET WEINSTEIN

No relation, but worthy of inclusion due to sensible choice of surname.

WEINSTEIN’S DEPARTMENT STORE

Of San Francisco. Again, no relation, but the sign just made me... kvell... all over.

NATHAN WEINSTEIN

Of Mystic, Connecticut.

MARYLOU SHEILS, BILL and LIL HOLSTEIN, FRANK and SUSIE MARRERO, ARNIE and PAT SOMERS, DR. HARRY LEVINE of 6360 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., AL LEVINE of LONDON ASSOCIATES, Chicago, MAC and SHIRLEY ENGEL, EVE REMENY, JUDY SPIEGEL, MARY JANE HIGGINS, MARETTA TUCKER, MR. and MRS. HAL SINGER, NORM LEIGHTON, NANCY HELPERN, MONIQUE VAUGEL, DOLORES MIRANDA, BERT and IDA ENGEL, STEVE PIERINGER, MIKE, SUSIE and TOMMY STUDNIA, STAN EARLY, ROSS HIRSHORN, NORVIN NATHAN, MR. and MRS. WALTER WARREN, MARVIN and PHYLLIS HABAS, MR. and MRS. SAM MELMAN, DAVID and ESTHER ZWEIG, LEONARD, HELENA PAVLOVA, LINDA, KAREN and SHERRY BOGARDE, JEAN BERNSTEIN, LINDA BILLINGTON, MARGIE, BERNIE and STEVIE HIRSH, DOLLY COHEN, MARY MILLER, SEYMOUR GINSBURG, DAVID and HOPE WISNIA, CARMELA CANDELA, BARRY SINCO, DAVID O’MEARA, TONY ROIG, CLAUDE and HEATHCLIFFE TRENIER, NANCY PALMER, pretty JAN and passable STAN FEINTUCH, LINDA LATZ, Bat Lady of San Francisco.

FRIAR BOBBY GORDON, MR. and MRS. FRED KANTOFF, PHIL WEISS of FRIEDMAN, ALPREN & GREEN, MRS. NATALIE FULTON, SELMA LITOWITZ, ALAN, GRACE, LEIGH, CORY and TOD BRESLAU, SAUL MILLNER, MURRAY HORNICK, MORTON SPITOFSKY, CHARLES CHARNE, ALLEN DELIN and the rest of BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, NEWMAN and IRENE HOFFMAN, MR. and MRS. HAL LEFCOURT, GENE D’ANDREA of Andrea Motors, Morrisville, Pa., GEORGE and SARAH GORDON, PRISCILLA SLOSS, JAMES E. MAGEE of New York Life Insurance.

BILL HART

Of WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, who once slated, “No man is an island.” He also said, “No hockey puck is a dirigible; no telegraph pole is a pencil box.” Bill has this flair for correctly identifying things.

CEIL DYER

ANTHONY LaCAMERA

Television critic, friend of Norman Shavin.

GEORGE F. BROWN and EDDIE LOPEZ

Of the San Juan
Star
.

DAVE DUSHOFF, DALLAS GERSON and JERRY KATZ

Of the Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, N. J.

TONY BEACON and MARY MURPHY AIVAZIAN

Of the San Juan
Diary
.

WOODY ALLEN

With admiration.

LEON, CLAIRE and KIRK NUROCK

The last named an amazing young jazz player, arranger, composer. Record companies please note.

DON THOMPSON

Of the
Rocky Mountain News
.

CLEVELAND AMORY

With gratitude.

HARRY NEIGHER

Of the Connecticut
Sunday Herald
.

WALTER BORENSTEIN

Of the
North American Review
.

JACKIE PETTYCREW

Of the Arizona
Republic
.

BEVERLEY GITHENS

Of the Eureka Springs, Ark.,
Times Echo
.

DOLPH HONICKER

Of the Nashville
Tennessean
.

RUTH JACOBS and SHOLOM RUBINSTEIN

Of
The Jewish Home Show
, WEVD, New York.

SUE NAPIER

Of the Lexington, Ky.,
Sunday Herald-Leader
.

RICHARD CROKER

Of the Georgia State College
Signal
.

CHARLES McHARRY

Of the New York
Daily News
.

JERRY GAGHAN

Of the Philadelphia
Daily News
.

FRANK BROOKHOUSER

Of the Philadelphia
Bulletin
.

In Philadelphia, nearly everybody on the
Bulletin
reads
Mad Magazine
.

HERB RAU

HERB KELLY

LENNY MEYERS

Of WHDH, Boston.

BILL and STUART BLUMBERG

JULIE DANE

Of WHDH-TV, Boston.
Noch a mool
, the Name Game. (“What? Chili Chuvalo, the Chilean Spitfire, walked out on the Blofeld Follies of 1935 ten seconds before the opening curtain just because I wouldn’t let her two-year-old brother conduct the orchestra? Well, that does it—one million bucks down the drain!” Kindly old Pop Abel Green looked up from his tattered
Variety
. “Now, hold on there, Mr. Florenz Blofeld. Maybe you are the world’s greatest showman and I’m just a broken-down old hoofer who sweeps up backstage, but there’s a lovely young kid right under your nose, little Julie Dane, our script girl, and she’s got a voice like an angel and she knows Chili’s part by heart and....”)

HOWIE TEDDER

Of the Trenton, N.J.,
Times
, who got me into this business. Blame him. (Ginmill comics who need shtik should contact him.)

CARL GEORGE

Of KABC-TV, Los Angeles.

NICK SERUBY

My old barber.

ELLEN WILLIS

Of
Fact
.

PAUL CONDYLAS

Of KABC, Los Angeles; “The Voice of the Tigris and Euphrates.”

MIKE JACKSON

Of the Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner
.

BOB KENNEDY

Of WBZ-TV, Boston.

BRUCE McCABE

Of the Boston
Record-American
.

HERB KENNY and GEORGE McKINNON

Of the Boston
Globe
.

ROBERT TAYLOR

“The Roving Eye” of the Boston
Herald-Traveler
, a likable, perceptive chap hamstrung by a prosaic name. Drop it; use Spangler Arlington Brugh.

HELEN HESSEN

Nurse Parker at Duh Fontenbloo.

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