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Arnold "Red" Auerbach (1917-)
was the longtime coach, general
manager and president of the
Boston Celtics. A member of the
Basketball Hall of Fame and of
Israel's Wingate Institute for sports,
he was the first to bring a black
player, Chuck Cooper, to the
National Basketball Association, in
1950. He explained, "To me a
person is a person, and I don't like
it any other way."
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Don Adams (1926-) is an actor
best known for talking to his shoe, in
his role as "Maxwell Smart." (our
reader, Mr. Farb, also informed "Tell
Me Why" [it's hard to believe "Tell
Me Why" doesn't know EVERY-
THING, but it does happen ...
rarely, though] that Adams started his
career as an impressionist.
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of singer Bob Dylan, and the lead
vocalist for the group The Wall-
flowers.
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Jakob Dylan (1970-) is the son
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was
Lenin's colleague and the man who
organized the Soviet Red Army.
Born Lev Bronfman, he died while in
exile in Mexico, mUrdered by Stalin-
ist agents.
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Chaim Ginoft (1922-73) was a
psychologist and one of the first to
advocate compassionate childcare.
He urged parents to "treat your child
like a guest." Why, he asked, do
we say, "don't worry about it!" if a
visitor accidentally knocks over a
cup of juice, while we yell at our
child for doing the same. His books
include Between Parent and Child.
Mike Nichols (1931-) was born
Michael Peschkowsky in Berlin. He
began his career in the United
States as a comedian, often work-
ing with Elaine May. Later, he
became a director whose works
include Catch-22 and The Gradu-
ate.
Hannah Arendt (1906-75) was
German-born historian and polftical
and 'social philosopher, probably
most famous for her1666-k- ,---Elic.Ii.thann
in Jerusalem, a study of Nazi Adolf,:
Eichmann.
Luciano and Frank Costello. He was
a man of vision, too: he saw a little
spot on the map called Las Vegas
and decided it would be a great
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place for a few casinos.
Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204),
Aaron Copland (1900-90) was a
composer whose quintessential
American works include the sympho--'
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Ephraim Katzir (1916-) was presi-
dent of Israel from 1973 to 1978.
Born Ephraim Katchalski in Kiev, he
moved with his family to Palestine in
1925. He was Israel's youngest
president and also a student of
chemistry, who in 1966 became
the first Israeli elected to the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel ( 1906-
1947) was a mobster and close
associate of Meyer Lansky, Lucky
also known as the Rambam and Mai-
monides, was a 12th-century rabbi
and one of the greatest scholars in
Jewish history. A physician, he is the
author of The Mishneh Torah and
Guide to the Perplexed.
Benny Goodman (1909-86) was
a band leader and clarinet player
known as the "King of Swing."
Hannah Senesh (1921-44), a
native of Hungary, was a resistance
fighter with the British forces during
World War II. She was captured
and murdered, but not before leav-
ing behind a brilliant collection of
poetry.