Abraham Isaac "Abe" Lastfogel (1898-1984) was one of the first employees and a long-time President of the William Morris Agency, a large diverisified talent agency. 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency a large diversified talent and literary agency, with offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, London and Miami. ...

Abe was the seventh son of "a Yiddish-speaking animal skinner who'd fled Russia in 1889 to escape the pogroms and found work in the Gansevoort Street meatpacking district by the docks of the Lower West Side. Born in 1898, the boy had grown up in a cold-water flat on East Forty-ninth Street... He was a scappy kid, compact and solidly built..." (The Agency, pg. 34)

The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912 as an office boy. Finding success in the rapidly growing firm, Lastfogel ultimately moved to Hollywood in 1932 to manage WMA's Los Angeles office. Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency a large diversified talent and literary agency, with offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, London and Miami. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency a large diversified talent and literary agency, with offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, London and Miami. ...

During World War II, Lastfogel mounted USO-Camp Shows with more than 7000 performers, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart, to two hundred million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world. (pg. 82) World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The United Service Organization Troop The United Service Organizations (USO) is a volunteer organization that provides morale and recreation services to American servicemembers worldwide. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an iconic American actor who retains legendary status decades after his death. ... Jimmy Cagney was part of the Legends of Hollywood USPS stamp series. ... With Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950 Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor whose career spanned the from the 1920s up until the year of his death. ... Bing wooed fans with a sensuous voice, wit, and good looks. ... Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore, February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress and talk show host. ... Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely...

References

The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business by Frank Rose -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0887307493/102-6407842-8796966?v=glance