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| | Laughter from the Toy Chest -- Monday, May. 28, 1979 -- Page 2 -- TIME |
 | | Raised in an upper-middle-class family in Great Neck, just outside New York City, Kaufman put on playground shows for schoolmates, appeared at neighborhood birthday parties with a pint-size extravaganzacomedy, cartoons, magic that could have been an early rehearsal for Carnegie Hall. |
 | | During his days at Grahm Junior College in Boston, a course in transcendental meditation eased him into performing at amateur nights and clubs like the Improvisation in Manhattan. |
 | | There he would appear, often as the Foreign Man, and embarrass everyone with his desperate comedy and maladroit impressions, then let them in on the joke by launching into his superlative Elvis. |
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