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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
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