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...created scripts for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, Perry Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945, which featured his wife Jane as a dippy mangier of language ("a ragged individualist," "up at the crank of dawn"). Ace, who always greeted his friends with a joke, asked that his tombstone be inscribed: "No flowers, please. I'm allergic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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