> The wife, watching the boob tube, just yelled from the front room
 > that Alice Faye has died.
 > Gee. She was the first movie star I fell in love with. I was 9 or 10
 > years old and the movie was ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND. That was a
 > three-hanky movie for me back then.
 > Rather morbid thoughts of mortality bring to mind what a friend told
 > me
 > about why us older folks today don't get on too well with the
 > younger.
 > "What makes the younger generation cry, makes us laugh. What makes
 > them
 > laugh, makes us cry."
 > I don't think the younger generation would get a whole lot from
 > watching
 > Alice Faye movies, and, to be fair, with rather good reasons. But
 > for
 > those who lived the times, there is much to be reaped there.
 > A popular WWII song went:
 > "We'll meet again
 >  Don't know where
 >  Don't know when
 >  But I know we'll meet again
 >  Some sunshiny day."
 > Pretty prosaic for today, but when wives and mothers were watching
 > their
 > uniformed young men departing on the train for the war, it was
 > pretty
 > potent stuff.
 > I'm meandering. (sigh).
...And now we learn that Frank Sinatra has died.
Regards,
Jack
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