Joseph R. Applegate is said to have been able to speak at least 13 languages and had a reading knowledge of several others. Applegate was born to parents who operated a boarding house in Wildwood, New Jersey, on December 4, 1925.  When his family moved to Philadelphia, he interacted with Yiddish and Italian schoolmates and […]

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