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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Funny
Men
World
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Advertising
Humor
Space

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Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
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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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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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