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AS A LANGUAGE SPECIALIST IN U.S. Army intelligence, “I was a natural,” quips 96-year-old Max Horlick. His Russian-Jewish parents raised him in New Jersey among immigrants speaking German, Italian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian; he practiced French with Cyd Charisse’s future mother-in law and studied languages at Rutgers and Columbia. Before the Battle of the Bulge, …
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