Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

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284 Prologue: Overweight Sensation xi There were two days “The World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc /oct26/ (accessed June 16, 2012). xi “Dear Allan Sherman” Newton N. Minow to Allan Sherman, October 26, 1962. Allan Sherman Papers (ASP). xi In the Camelot Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb, “Culture Makes a Hit at the White House,” New York Times, January 28, 1962, http://select.nytimes .com (accessed June 16, 2012). xii “I can’t say how much” Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Mr. Sherman, November 5, 1962. ASP. xiii As an account Stan Cornyn, Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group (New York: HarperEntertainment, 2003), 210. xiii “the competing impulses” Eli Lederhendler, “Rereading the Americanization Narratives of Antin, Zangwill, and Cahan” in Imagining the American Jewish Community, Jack Wertheimer, ed. (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2007), 259. xiii “brought so much enthusiasm” Saul Bellow, “Cousins,” in Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 282. Introduction: Humpty Dumpty 1 “roly-poly” Far and Near, November 18, 1937, 4. 1 “Listen, World” Far and Near, February 24, 1938, 2. 1 “The Passing Parade” Far and Near, June 23, 1938, 1. 1 Segal’s funny, Far and Near, May, 26, 1938, 1. 2 They were an elite group “Hancock Park,” Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Office of Historic Resources, http://preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/la /hancock-park (accessed May 8, 2012). Notes to Pages 2–10 / 285 2 “Humpty Dumpty sat on a train” Allan Segal, “Mother Goose of 1938,” BURR (Los Angeles: John Burroughs Jr. High, 1938), n.p. 2 “My grandmother” Evelyn Raden, telephone interview by author, February 7, 2005. 3 “He screwed” Lee Cooper, telephone interview by author, January 18, 2006. 3 “It didn’t take” Morris Coplon, telephone interview by author, April 7, 2005. 3 “Anything that was” Mickey Sherman, telephone interview by author, February 27, 2005. one. Witz-Krieg! 8 Between 1906 For Anna (Lustig) Strowiss, see Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 Population, Chicago, Illinois, Ward 15, Sheet No. 19, line 2. For Abe Lustig, see “List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival,” S.S. Samlund, Antwerp to New York, arrival of May 15, 1907, List 29, Line 3. For Saul Lustig, see Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 Population Schedule, Chicago, Illinois, Ward 35, Block No. 184, Sheet No. 7 A, Line 43. Fanny Lustig information in e-mail message from Syril Gilbert to author, April 21, 2011. 8 Their sister Esther Passenger records for Esther Sahermann, Riwke Sahermann, and Kreindel Sahermann. The Statue of Liberty—Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., Ellis Island Port of New York Records. www.ellisisland.org. 8 “To Grandma” Allan Sherman, “My Moment of Truth Happened 29 Years Ago, but I Didn’t Understand It until Last Thursday,” [1971], 2. ASP. 8 Most Stashev Jews “Staszow—History,” Virtual Shtetl: Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, www.sztetl.org.pl/en /article/staszow/5,history/ (accessed May 8, 2012). 9 Leib Lustig was Leib Lustig, “List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival,” S.S. Latyia, Danzig to New York, arrival on September 14, 1921, List 7, Line 26. 9 The Lustig family’s search Leib left Ozarow sometime between Esther’s birth there in 1881–82 and Abraham’s birth in Stashev on August 1, 1883. For Leib’s age and birth in Ozarow, see Leib Lustig, “List or Manifest.” For Abraham’s birth in Stashev, see Abe Lustig, “List or Manifest.” For Abe’s birth date, see Abe Lustig, World War I Draft Registration Card, www.ancestry.com. For Esther’s birth in Ozarow, see Leibush Sherman, Petition for Naturalization, Chicago, November 5, 1914, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For Esther’s birth in 1881–82, see Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920 Population, Chicago, Illinois, Ward 16, Sheet No. 13 B, Line 97. 9 Three slept Rosalie Wise Sharp, Rifke, an Improbable Life (Toronto: ECW Press, 2007), 204. 9 Jews in the Ozarow Alexander Beider, “Names and Naming,” YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, www.yivoencyclopedia.org (accessed May 8, 2012). 9 One name for Jean Baumgarten, “Badkhonim,” YIVO Encyclopedia, www.yivoencyclopedia.org (accessed May 8, 2012). 9 “He called my mother” Syril Gilbert, e...