Sunday

Last night the Heroes & Icons channel ran Weep No More, episode 27 of season two of Combat!, first aired in 1964. It stars Anjanette Comer as a young farm woman traumatized by the killing of her parents. Also of note, the third of four appearances made by Ted Knight in the series, this time as a Nazi Sergeant speaking only German and French. I believe I called him “Baxter” last time, which was the name of the iconic character he played on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which he was nominated six times for an Emmy, taking home two. Born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka to Polish immigrants in 1923, he earned five battle stars while serving in the Army in the European Theatre during WWII. There are 105 titles under his name at IMDb, but that doesn’t accurately reflect his accomplishments. He was in 129 alone of Too Close for Comfort, 165 of MTM and he made scores of multiple appearances on other popular TV fare. His most amusing credit came in Psycho (1960), playing a guard who opens a door in one of the final scenes, for which he was paid $150. He also excelled at voiceovers. His career spanned 1958-’87, his last works posthumous, as he succumbed to cancer at 62 in 1986. Here’s a still from the episode in question. I apologize for the poor quality. He’s barely recognizable:

I wonder if a study has been done about the infection rate of those living alone. I googled it and spotted only reports on households overall.

I don’t know whether this headline from foxnews.com is sad or funny: “Teen Vogue staffers lock down Twitter accounts fearing past could haunt them.”

I closed the floating book shop a half hour early in order to walk over to a Chinese bakery on 86th St. and found that it has gone out of business, which is surprising given how active that stretch remains. So much for my hankering for a couple of hot dog buns. My thanks to the lovely young woman who handed me a dollar and again thanked me for the Bible in Hebrew she purchased yesterday, which must have pleased whomever she’d given it; and to Mr. Conspiracy, aka Steve, who bought two pictorials: Brooklyn Then and Now by Marcia Reiss and Best of Signal: Hitler’s Wartime Picture Magazine by S. L. Mayer; and to the man who chose Roget’s Thesaurus over a college dictionary; and to the ladies who selected a book each in Russian. Yesterday I neglected to cite the gentleman who donated the pictorials and several other marketable books. My thanks.

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