While attending graduate school in Manhattan in the early and mid 1970s I drove a cab. I interacted, though briefly, with numerous celebrities and with only one exception they were either quite pleasant or neutral. The only one who was rude was Howard Cosell, as obnoxious in person as he was on radio and television.
My favorite encounter was with Duke Ellington. I delivered an order of Chinese food to his and his wife’s apartment. It was mid-winter and rather chilly outside and even though I only had to walk from the sidewalk to the building entrance (he and his wife lived in a high-rise building near Lincoln Center) he invited me inside, offered me a glass of water, asked me if I was okay and was generally absolutely congenial.
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Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,[1] to accountant Isidore Cohen and his wife Nellie Cohen (née Rosenthal); his parents were Jewish.[5][6] He had an elder brother, Hilton (1914–1992).[7] The grandson of a rabbi,[8] he was raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
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