Yestermen

Harry Parke, born Harry Einstein in 1904, was a comedian, and by the 1950s was resting on the laurels of his invented persona, a Greek named Parkyakarkus.  This fictive name translates to “park a your carcass.”  Remember, in these days nobody blinked at ethnic humor. Harry was one of those clubby, fraternizing comedians who...
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What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb?  While dangerously close to yes men, the term yestermen works for me. He’s the man who saves the woman from falling off of Mt. Rushmore–all without taking off his tie.  The polar opposite...
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