Remembering Jackie Gleason

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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February 26th, 1916 was the day John Herbert Gleason was born in Brooklyn. The street-wise kid adept at pool and sharp-edged comedy hit the big-time in the 1950s with "The Jackie Gleason Show" on CBS, and remains with us in reruns as bus driver Ralph Kramden.