input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN)Longtime New York City radio and television personality Joe Franklin has died. He was 88.

"Joe went unexpectedly and passed away Saturday night," friend and former producer Steve Garrin said.

Franklin was a fixture on late-night radio and TV in New York, working at WJZ and WOR, and recently at the Bloomberg Radio Network.

"The last two weeks were the first time he ever missed a broadcast in over 60 years" Garrin said.

Though he never broke onto the national scene, Franklin was "in many ways, the pioneer of the modern TV talk show format," according to his website, which says he interviewed more than 300,000 guests.

The likes of Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby and Liza Minnelli got early exposure on his show.

He also interviewed offbeat characters who would give "The Joe Franklin Show" a "great uniqueness. On any given night you might find a world renown artist sitting next to a balloon folder from New Jersey," his website says.

He was remembered as a "NYC legend" and "radio and TV icon who was the spirit of a hard-working New Yorker" by fans on Twitter. Others said that his "accidental absurdism was like an Ionesco play every night" and that "Joe Franklin was every New Yorker's oddball, congenial neighbor."

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Franklin, who was often parodied on "Saturday Night Live" by Billy Crystal, also played himself in such films as "Manhattan," "Ghostbusters" and "Broadway Danny Rose."

He was an avid collector of entertainment nostalgia. His website says he had more than 50,000 movie stills, 170,000 magazines, 20,000 playbills and 200,000 pieces of sheet music. Photographs show a lot of his collection crammed into his office. 1. Is Joe Franklin alive?
2. How old was he?
3. Where did he live?
4. was his death expected?
5. how long did he go without missing a broadcast?
6. when did he miss a show?
7. How many people has he had on his show as guests?
8. What was the name of his show?/
9. was he considered a legend/
10. how many movie stills did he own?
numbered_answers: 1. no
2. 88
3. New York City
4. No
5. 60 years
6. The last two weeks
7. 300,000 guests.
8. "The Joe Franklin Show"
9. yes
10. 50,000

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as "The City". The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River.

Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals US$ today. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan exceeded US as of 2017, and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at US in 2017. 1. What type of city is Manhattan considered to be?
2. What do the locals call it?
3. Is it close to any bodies of water?
4. Which ones?
5. Is it cheap to live there?
6. How is much Manhattan Island worth?
7. What does the world think of Manhattan?
8. Is the city used often by the media?
9. Which type of media outlets?
10. When was it purchased?
11. By who?
12. Who did they buy it from?
numbered_answers: 1. a borough
2. The City
3. yes
4. the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers
5. no
6. over $3 trillion
7. it's the most economically powerful city
8. yes
9. books, films, and television shows
10. in 1626
11. Dutch colonists
12. Native Americans

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XVIII.

THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT.

Unlike most other plants the International Machine Company paid on Monday, and it was on the Monday following his assumption of his new duties that Jimmy had his first clash with Bince. He had been talking with Everett, the cashier, whom, in accordance with his "method," he was studying. From Everett he had learned that it was pay-day and he had asked the cashier to let him see the pay-roll.

"I don't handle the pay-roll," replied Everett a trifle peevishly. "Shortly after Mr. Bince was made assistant general manager a new rule was promulgated, to the effect that all salaries and wages were to be considered as confidential and that no one but the assistant general manager would handle the pay-rolls. All I know is the amount of the weekly check. He hires and fires everybody and pays everybody."

"Rather unusual, isn't it?" commented Jimmy.

"Very," said Everett. "Here's some of us have been with Mr. Compton since Bince was in long clothes, and then he comes in here and says that we are not to be trusted with the pay-roll."

"Well," said Jimmy, "I shall have to go to him to see it then."

"He won't show it to you," said Everett.

"Oh, I guess he will," said Jimmy, and a moment later he knocked at Bince's office door. When Bince saw who it was he turned back to his work with a grunt.

"I am sorry, Torrance," he said, "but I can't talk with you just now. I'm very busy." 1. Have some of the people been with the company since Bince was a baby?
2. According to whom?
3. What's the name of the owner of the company?
4. What's the name of the company?
5. What does Bince say people are not to be trusted with?
6. What's his position?
7. Did he make up a new rule?
8. What were wages to now be considered?
9. What's the only thing Everett knows now?
10. Does Bince hire everybody?
11. What else does he do?
12. How often are the checks sent out?
13. What day does IMC pay on?
14. How long has Jimmy been there?
15. Is he at all scared of Bince?
16. What's Jimmy's last name?
17. Does Bince treat him respectfully?
18. Does Everett think Bince will show Jimmy the payroll?
19. What does Bince tell Jimmy when he knocks on his office door?
20. Is he busy or available?
numbered_answers:
1. yes
2. Everett.
3. Mr. Compton
4. International Machine Company
5. pay-roll
6. assistant general manager
7. yes
8. confidential
9. the amount
10. yes
11. fires
12. weekly
13. Monday
14. one week
15. no
16. Torrance
17. no
18. no
19. I am sorry
20. busy