Some Miscellaneous for Monday

It was the end of Eric Swalwell's political career today. 

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Obit:  Sid Krofft, 96, who with his brother Marty created many memorable children's programs, most notably the short-lived H.R. Pufnstuf, died Friday.  His brother died in 2023. 

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Krofft was born in Montreal on July 30, 1929, and when he was young, he and his family lived in Maine, Rhode Island and the Bronx. For PR, the brothers liked to say that they came from a long line of puppeteers going back many generations. In truth, the story was fabricated. Their father was a clock salesman who emigrated from Greece in the early 1900s.

“The Kroffts have been playing with dolls their whole lives,” Marty joked about the brothers’ boyhood interest in puppeteering. By the time he was 15, Sid was already working clubs in New York.

(They had two other brothers; Hy died during fighting in World War II, and Harry, who died last year, briefly worked for their company before going into real estate.)