Originally Posted By: SC
My own favorite was "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss"...


Another classic. Don't know why I totally forgot about that one when I made my previous post. Read that one in Playboy, too. Now, I'm probably going to go digging in the closet later to see if those particular Playboys survived.

 Originally Posted By: SC
He used to appear on radio at night and wonderfully tell his memories in a manner that only he could. I miss him!


Same here. I was a regular listener in the early '70s. (WOR radio.) He had a way with words that could conjure up images like nobody else. I still remember one line from a story where he described a nude baseball game with his army buddies. He described how the catcher "squatted pendulously" behind home plate.

Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."