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Chapter Twenty-Seven
Crowning Achievement:
Harvey, the General Counsel
SEPTEMBER 1986 – DECEMBER 1990
In which our author works at Coronet with a great deal of interest and ultimately finds out what a free lunch actually costs.
Days of Awe
Given what I’ve told you about my less-than-positive experiences with Judaism over the first four decades of my life, you will be amazed to learn the extent to which I was responsible for the sermon given in prac- tically every synagogue in and around New York on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in September 1986. Well, maybe “responsible” is a bit of a stretch, but I do pride myself in my contribution to the preaching on that day. Slightly greater credit goes to Gerald R. Guterman, however.
You see, Mr. Guterman (pronounced, appropriately enough, “Gut- ter-min”) had searched and searched for a spiritually appropriate venue for the September 17 bar mitzvah of his son until, in a moment of true inspiration, he heard the voice of the Lord and concluded, “Why, of course! We’ll do it at sea. We’ll do it aboard the QE2!”
Thus it came to pass that Guterman had invited more than six hun- dred of his closest friends and relatives to board the Cunard Line’s
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