The answer to the Friday Quiz is:
They were all born on February 9.
February 9 has to be one of the most inauspicious days of the 365.25 we enjoy each year. In addition to Ms. Miranda, Mr. Veeck, and President Harrison, I could have listed newscaster Roger Mudd, singer Ernest Tubb, and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, the inventor of stenography.
Had I been born but a day earlier, I would have shared my day with such august and celebrated personalities as Jules Verne, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Dean, and Lana Turner.
A day later, and Bertolt Brecht, Lon Chaney, Jr., and the great Jimmy Durante would have shared my birthday.
But, alas, today is the day.
All hail me, and today’s saint, Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of dentists and dental technicians.
