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Article: HARRY ELLIS DICKSON REMEMBERS DANNY KAYE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1987
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A few weeks ago, Harry Ellis Dickson's phone rang at two
o'clock in the morning. He knew it had to be Danny Kaye. "At two
o'clock in the morning, who else would it be but Danny?" said the
Boston Pops' associate conductor laureate in a telephone interview
yesterday.
He picked up the receiver. "Hello, Hesh?," the voice said,
"Hesh" being the name Kaye was fond of calling Dickson.
"Yes?" said Dickson, half asleep.
"I'm busy," Kaye said. "I can't talk to you now." And Kaye
hung up.
To Dickson, the phone call was vintage Danny Kaye -- the
unpredictable, impulsive prankster with "a tremendous desire to
make people laugh."
Kaye, he said, was the best friend he had, and they'd been ...