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- Feb. 18, 1991: Died:Danny Thomas
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 62
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- <p> DIED. Danny Thomas, 79, comedian and philanthropist; in Los
- Angeles. In the 1950s and '60s he starred in the television
- series Make Room for Daddy and The Danny Thomas Show as the
- family's cranky but kind patriarch. Born Muzyad Yakhoob to
- Lebanese immigrants in Deerfield, Mich., Thomas made a name for
- himself more as a storyteller than as a jokester in nightclubs,
- radio and films. In 1962 he founded the St. Jude Children's
- Research Hospital in Memphis to treat cancer-stricken
- youngsters. The Saturday before he died he appeared in his son's
- TV show Empty Nest.
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