A Norton Simon Stealthiverio Photograph Dedicated To JD + DT

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A detail from Auguste Rodin's
The Burghers of Calais
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© Oliverio

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In the middle of the 20th Century, 
a middle-class kid I did be
with a six-legged cultural boundary:

Willie Mays, Ed Sullivan, Bobby Vee
plus 3 networks w/ middle letter  B
as in NBC, CBS and ABC.

In 1961,   Jimmy Durante  was a guest
on  Make Room For Daddy.

At a museum,  Danny Thomas and Jimmy Durante
encounter The Thinker, a life-size sculpture.

 Jimmy exclaims: 
"I know what he is thinking!
He's thinking Where did I leave my clothes?"

This was my first exposure to the art of  Auguste Rodin.

By the end of the 20th Century,
thanks to an extraordinary museum in Pasadena,
I knew that "burgers" could be spelt
with an h without adding ham. 
      

Auguste Rodin 
The Burghers of Calais
(1884-1895)

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