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Mazel Toy!

ON THE COVER

A Tribute to a man of impeccable "taste"
Well deserved...
Well earned...
Thanks for your friendship!

DANNY FROM PAGE B4

Henry Baskin

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Ark _AL ArIL

Congra tula ti ons !

DANNY,

-CONGRATULATIS
ON TO A REAT GUY A ND
A G OOD FRI END
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....„.FROM JERRY GURWIN

Mazel Toy!

AND BEST WISHES

FROM,
LEE (BUZZ) TURNER
AND
TURNER & TURNER

C9.14gratill469kr,

Danny,

Best wishes for good health and continued dining success.

Hamad and Janine Kouka
& Staff of Pasta Fagioli
(call for great pricing on all types of catering)
248-332-1111

B6

October 23 • 2008

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STREETS

Danny, Freda and Gigi relax at home.

editor Phillip Slomovitz, offered him
a part-time job as a columnist.
Raskin had his own recording
and advertising businesses, but later
joined the Jewish News full-time as
an advertising executive.
When asked what has changed
over the 66 years, Raskin quickly
responds, "My age!" But little else
has.
To this day, he has a huge number
of notes in the pockets of his suits
and he continues to handwrite his
column from the notes, then type
it up. Two concessions to progress:
Computers now make his typing go
"1-2-3" and he submits the column
to the paper via e-mail.

"But I still have to come in and
look at a proof [of the column]," he
says. "I'll never stop doing that. All I
have to do is put some woman's age
wrong," he jokes, "and I would have
to leave town."
For many years, according to
Simmons newspaper studies,
Raskin's columns were the most-
read feature in the Jewish News. And
their effect was widespread.
Matt Prentice is now the head
of the 12-restaurant Matt Prentice
Restaurant Group, headquartered in
Bingham Farms. But 29 years ago,
when he bought his first deli in Oak

DANNY ON PAGE B8

