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To: DFG

“”””””While there, he bought two life insurance policies totaling $105,000; remarkably, life insurance could be bought from vending machines at the airport throughout the 1950s and 1960s.””””””

As one of the guests on the Carson show described, in those days he used to like to dress as a pilot and pretend to be wobbly, wasted drunk while buying life insurance from the loading entrance machines.


7 posted on 12/27/2025 5:40:12 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

You can still by life insurance at some airports.


11 posted on 12/27/2025 6:30:52 AM PST by bort
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To: ansel12

“”As one of the guests on the Carson show described, in those days he used to like to dress as a pilot and pretend to be wobbly, wasted drunk””

Foster Brooks, I believe - great skit!


15 posted on 12/27/2025 6:59:43 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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