Re: OT: Don Adams dies at 82
- From: simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:46:32 GMT
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:39:01 -0700, in a place far, far away, Dale
<drc@xxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to
indicate that:
>Donald James Yarmy was born on April 13, 1923, in Manhattan. He said changed his
>last name to that of his first wife, Adelaide Adams, because acting auditions were
>often done in alphabetical order.
>
>His father ran a few small restaurants in the Bronx. Mr. Adams grew up hating
>school and playing hooky at the movies. During World War II, he joined the Marines
>at 16 by lying about his age. On Guadalcanal, he was shot and contracted blackwater
>fever, fatal 90 percent of the time.
This chronology doesn't make sense. If he was born in 1923, he would
have been sixteen in late 1939 and early 1940. The war didn't start
for the US until almost 1942.
.
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