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Friends and Family Say Farewell to the Legendary Norman Lear — People
Nearly a century ago, a boy named Norman Lear stood by a lake with his grandfather, tossing pebbles into the water. When the old man told Norman that every additional pebble raised the water level, Norman chucked in a rock. Well, he said, the lake looked just the same. No, the water was higher, his grandfather responded, adding, but “all you see is the ripple.” Reflecting on this decades later, after he’d become one of the most powerful creative forces in TV history, Lear supplied a moral…
American Expeditionary Force Ww1
NORMAN LEAR - ARMY AIR CORPS - TV PRODUCER - operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the Fifteenth Air Force. He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945. He and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the book "Crew Umbriago" by Daniel P. Carroll (tail gunner), and also in another book: 772nd Bomb…
