Once upon a time in days of yore….before the IndustrialRevolution, cyber space wasn’t even an instinctive vision,blueprinted on the walls of Alley Oop’s cave, where he and Dinnythe Dinosaur retreated when the saber tooth tigers off the LaBrea tar pits, tracked and smelled prehistoric blood….not withstanding thehaute monde was a caveman and dinosaur steak deluxe.
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Fast forward into cyber space coming to grips with the saber tooth tigers consumer eatery or diner thousands of years later; another millennium before the majestic China wall was but a gleam in Madame Chang Chai Chek’s eyes, a far cry from her in futuro, living the good life in exile, on Long Island’s Nassau County’s North Long Beach, off the Long Island Sound.
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But pioneering Fred Allen was oblivious to these wars and battles waged before he and his frau Portland Hoffa, sister of ArtieHershkowitz, the agent, whose “coz” the Chairman of Philosophy at Yale, under Kingman Brewster ‘s reign.
While Fred strode the airwaves, doing battle with advertising agencies before Jack Benny Mary Livingstone and their gang with Rochester, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Bobby Brfeen, Dennis day (post Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee) sounding their lung busting “Ma momma done tol me…… ma momma done tol me so…”
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In trying to work up his comedic steam for his 60 minutes on the airwaves, Mister Allen and his cast traveled to Town Hall, to partake of Mark Twain’s ( Samuel Clements)
“Shh,” said the usherette, guiding the troupe to their balcony seats,which were gratuitous for Fred Allen and his Allen Alley. In otherwords comps, hearing Mark Twain……(Harper’s Magazine) V
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute a very small percentage of the human race: It’s suggested it’s a nebulous puff of star dust, lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.
Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard. But he always beenheard of. He has always been prominent on the planet. Always been heard of. He also been prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is actually out of proportion to thesmallness of his bulk.
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His contributions to the world’s list of great names in academia,science, art, music, finance, law, *architecture, medicine and economics along the way, are also out of proportion to his or hernumbers.
He hade a marvelous fight in this world And he has done it with one hand tied behind him He is not vain of himself. And if he is, he ought to be excused for it.
The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Persians rose, the filed their hour glass … faded dream stuff and
they are all gone: other peoples have sprung up and held the torch high for a time, but it burned out. And they sit in the twilight now or have vanished.
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The Jew saw them all: beat them all. And now is what he always wads. Exhibiting no decadence ,no infirmity of age, no weakening of his part, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind..
All things are mortal but the Jew: all other forces pass. But he remains..
What is the secret of his immortality?”
December 14, 2014. The City that never sleeps. (*Judy Edelman’s 91 years… pioneer woman architect
Her life celebrated by her family and the City’s architects)
