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Leo Melamed, Man of the Futures: The Story of Leo Melamed & the Birth of Modern Finance

Change always comes with a price.

Samm Levine: Judd said, “Scott Sassa said, ‘If you get a ratings share higher than my shoe size, we’ll order more episodes.’ ” And mercifully he was not a tall man.

He’s responsible for, at minimum, two of the top ten comedies of all time, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. (There is a legitimate argument to be made that he is responsible for more than half of the top ten.) One could say Blazing Saddles is still the edgiest comedy ever made; screamingly funny and original, yes, but all in the service of

“Joe the Jew.”

In recent years, Shaw’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century drama about the ethics and economics of healthcare has been seen as prescient, prefiguring the establishment of the National Health Service in Britain and the Affordable Care Act in the United States. Even with these developments, modern Colenso Ridgeons still grapple with limited resources,

His son later said that Bankhead, who was from Alabama and had seen the worst of America’s racism, pitched in mortal fear of hitting a batter and causing a riot. Bankhead pitched in only four games and was sent back to the minors; there would not be another black pitcher in baseball until the legendary Satchel Paige was finally given his chance