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Re: YES
Wow....a very special man!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 3, 2018 at 4:59 AM
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This turned out to be fun!
Lot's of interesting info...thanks to everyone who participated!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 3, 2018 at 4:47 AM
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RP
Well, my dear, the real story is much more brutal and bloody than the sanitized version on Youtube....... and I don't know if it is fit for Blogit, because if I tell it here, there might be revulsion and condemnation by all the pacifists that infest this place. But I think I will go ahead and tell it, full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes!!! 
posted by
GoldenMean
on February 3, 2018 at 12:05 AM
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Re: GM
Wow! Now I'm wondering what IS the real story?
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM
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YES
Not only did I meet someone famous, I worked for him. You have never heard of him, but he is more worthy of being famous than any Hollywood star, or any politician. He is LT COL Harold Fritz, the best officer I ever knew or worked for in my Army career. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. Here is a link to the CMOH video. But...... he told me details of the real story, that are not in the video, that are quite astonishing. I might do a post about this, and thanks to Corbin, for giving me the idea......
posted by
GoldenMean
on February 2, 2018 at 11:14 PM
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Justin Murphy, Ed Koch and Carl Icahn and many more financiers, lawyers and
CFO's of all the major corporations in Downtown Manhatta. My boss, the President of DL-MA, was the laision between the Mayor Mr. Koch and the major corporations of Downtown Manhattan. I was the full charge bookkeeper of the Association, with over a million in assets and had to sumit a monthly financial to all our members monthly. I also served besides being full charge bookkeeper, secretary for a year when his secretary became ill. Mr. Murphy often took "his girls" to lunch at the Men's Club, Windows of the World and various resturants downtown and we were introduced to too many to remember all the names. But it was an exciting time in my life and just a little side story or two, my boss offered to help get my sons in any private school of their choosing, nice.
He also got the city to fix a drain at the end of my street on Staten Island so that i could get to work easier and taught me a very important lesson in life. He said to me when you need help with something don't be afraid to go to people you know and ask for help , you are actually doing them a favor by letting them help you, it makes them feel important and good about themselves.
posted by
overtherainbow
on February 2, 2018 at 5:43 PM
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Justin Murphy, Ed Koch and Carl Icahn and many more financiers, lawyers and
CFO's of all the major corporations in Downtown Manhatta. My boss, the President of DL-MA, was the laision between the Mayor Mr. Koch and the major corporations of Downtown Manhattan. I was the full charge bookkeeper of the Association, with over a million in assets and had to sumit a monthly financial to all our members monthly. I also served besides being full charge bookkeeper, secretary for a year when his secretary became ill. Mr. Murphy often took "his girls" to lunch at the Men's Club, Windows of the World and various resturants downtown and we were introduced to too many to remember all the names. But it was an exciting time in my life and just a little side story or two, my boss offered to help get my sons in any private school of their choosing, nice.
He also got the city to fix a drain at the end of my street on Staten Island so that i could get to work easier and taught me a very important lesson in life. He said to me when you need help with something don't be afraid to go to people you know and ask for help , you are actually doing them a favor by letting them help you, it makes them feel important and good about themselves.
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overtherainbow
on February 2, 2018 at 5:43 PM
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Very interesting......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 2, 2018 at 12:31 PM
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Yes, I went to school with a celebrity but I'm sorry I can't say who it is because of privacy - my own privacy. lol
Hah, my dad was a fourth cousin to Al on Happy Days! Does that count? lol.
My parents were the guests of Charlie Bronson and his wife for an afternoon visit, and we children were along. That was truly special. The house, the settiing, the artwork! (He was a fantastic fine artist!) There are a few more.
Bing Crosby's chauffeur was a bestie of my g-uncle and he drove us around Beverly Hills when we were visiting LA when I was a kid. That's really reaching...
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 2, 2018 at 11:25 AM
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I attended a lecture event when I was in college, by Isaac Asimov. I was not into collecting autographs of famous people to whom I was basically no one, but as I was leaving, a guy thrust a computer card into my hand, saying, "You can get his autograph on this!" and an idea stirred in my brain...
Asimov at this time was a friend of my dad's--Dad originated the job that Neil deGrass Tyson now does--though I had never been introduced. But I got on the line and when my turn came, I asked, "Would you autograph this to my father?" "Certainly..." and then he had to ask, "What's your father's name?" "Dr Kenneth Franklin." He said, "Ah! I know him!" and signed with a flourish.
I took that card and clipped to it the photo of Asimov from the student paper. It was the photo often on the back of his books, of him on a NYC street, hailing a taxi. The caption on the student paper read: Isaac Asimov gathering energy from cosmic sources. Then I sent the whole thing to my dad at the Hayden Planetarium. The next time I saw it, it was pinned to the office bulletin board there.
I felt quite smug, having engineered one of the least pointless of name-droppings, and a double one at that. Sometime later, my dad told me that he had mentioned the incident to Asimov, and Asimov remembered it, and me: Huzzah! That, after all, was the actual point of the thing.
posted by
Ciel
on February 2, 2018 at 9:37 AM
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My famous person I have never really talked about. I was actually introduced to and nodded to...no I could not bring myself to go closer to, and shake the hand of Colonel Gaddafi. It happened in Switzerland.
posted by
Kabu
on February 2, 2018 at 7:57 AM
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Re: I passed Marie Ralph on the street in Seattle one afternoon as
Hey....Cisco.....Hey...Pancho.....In Black and White......
Loved it.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 2, 2018 at 7:52 AM
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I passed Marie Ralph on the street in Seattle one afternoon as
she and a troupe of male dancers in tuxes left the theatre after a matinee on their way to get supper. Marie was star of a very old radio-TV show "My Friend Irma" which had the theme music "Friendship, friendship, it's just the perfect blendship, when other friendships have been forgot, ours will still be hot." la-da, la-da, la-da bip boom bop... (it was 1954) Actually shook hands with Duncan Renaldo, who played The Cisco Kid on TV at the time. But nobody as amazing a your poli-stars.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 2, 2018 at 7:49 AM
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