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Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns

NPR
Published January 15, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

There's a big Hollywood party tonight to mark the upcoming birthday of George Burns. He will be 100 years old this Saturday. We play excerpts from a 1940s Burns & Allen radio show - which foreshadows George Burns longevity in a comic way. (3:30) (

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