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To: Neenny who wrote (677)6/19/2000 1:22:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576
 
I have been to the (Orthodox)Jewish section of Pittsburgh.Many years ago I sometimes did school visits for the admissions office of my alma mater, and one of the high schools that I visited was in the area. It is rather warm and picturesque, as I recall. Kosher butchers and other specialty stores line the commercial sections. Introverted young men in yarmulkes stroll the school yard.......

If I lived that close to the Hall of Fame, I would have visited a dozen times by now. BTW, the man who provided the principle funding for the Hall of Fame is an alumnus of my college, and I have met him. He founded Atlantic Records in the late 40s. His name is Ahmet Ertegun. His father was the Turkish ambassador to Washington for a long time, and so he mostly went to school in America, and went to college at St. John's College, which had introduced its Great Books Program several years before, and had already had a big write up in Time............