Saturday, April 22, 2023

“Early American”?

In the Atlantic ’s Thursday crossword: 1-D, ten letters, “Early American comedian Ish, whose name comes from a Yiddish expression.” That would be, of course, KABIBBLE. But “early American”? Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) was born in 1908, flourished in the 1940s, and died in 1994.

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