https://simanaitissays.com/2026/08/08/benny-bits-and-superb-writers/Simanaitis Saysen2026-08-08T13:05:00+00:00BENNY BITS—AND SUPERB WRITERSMary Livingstone "Nobody Montana" "North Butte", "Celebrating Sadye Marks/Mary Livingstone" "SimanaitisSays", "I Wish I Said That (First)" "SimanaitisSays", Jack Tackaberry (Benny writer/Australian-born) (wrote "Pickle in the Middle"), Jack Benny comedy skit ("blonde hair she had just converted" "Glendale? No Tehachapi", Hilliard Marks (Mary Livingstone brother), Hilliard Marks (Benny joke about being 39), Jack Benny's vault (joke about guard Ed being behind the times), Edmund Beloin (Benny writer) (invented and portrayed Mr. Billingsley), "How Jack Benny and Harry Conn Stumbled Onto The Formula for Situation Comedy" Kathryn Fuller-Seeley "National Endowment for the Humanities", "The Jack Benny Show" on "SiriusXM" "Radio Classics", Jack Benny and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Maxwell (Mel Blanc sound effects), Jack Benny Rochester Hudson jokehttps://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/cast-1.jpg?w=150https://simanaitissays.com/2026/08/07/einsteins-annus-miraculosus-part-2/Simanaitis Saysen2026-08-07T13:05:00+00:00EINSTEIN’S ANNUS MIRACULOSUS PART 2"Einstein's Miracle Year" Ray Monk "London Review of Books" (three books reviewed), "The Essential Einstein: Public Writings" Kormos-Buchwald Sauer (reviewed by Monk), 1919 solar eclipse and proof of Einstein's theoretical 1.7 arcseconds of light bending, 1 arcsecond = 1/3600 of a degree = an angle of 1/1296000 of a circlehttps://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/lede-2.jpeg?w=150