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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

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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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