Bob Precht News Today

Dear Savannah Guthrie, I’m sorry I fired you. It’s actually true. Your humble history columnist actually did fire (well, “laid off”) the one and only Savannah Guthrie, in what became known as “Black Friday” in Butte: October 30, 1993.

Born in 1899, Jewish comedy writer Goodman Ace counted Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Danny Kaye and Fred Allen among his admirers.