Kate Smith bans set precedent Yankees, Flyers unlikely to meet

We were a Sunday night "The Ed Sullivan Show" family. And when Kate Smith appeared, my folks would mutter something about her being an anti-Semite who supported pre-World War II American Nazism. That was as confusing as it was perplexing. Her signature song, "God Bless America," was written by a Russian-Jewish immigrant, Israel Beilin, later...