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On an evening in the mid-1970s, the actor Carroll O’Connor and his wife took Ethel Merman to hear Bobby Short at Café Carlyle. Merman, who could be strident in her disapproval of other singers, ...

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Once upon a time a fisherman and his wife lived in the city of Hofn, in Iceland, and every day the fisherman paddled out into the huge lagoon to fish. Some days he was lucky, some days not so ...