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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
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Radio Personality
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
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