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Happy Birthday Fred Allen

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Shaun Usher
May 31, 2022
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Fred Allen “playing” a tuba in 1948. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images.)

Had he not died in 19561, American comedian Fred Allen would be turning 122 today. To celebrate, a letter he wrote in 1939 to one of his closest friends and most frequent correspondents, Joe Kelly, who had recently left a pair of swimming trunks at Allen’s home. This letter c…

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