Laberace

Stage name of NIH chemist Ted Firth who moonlight as this flamboyant concert pianist. Or at least according to Moe Rocca on the Bluff The Listener segment of NPR radio show wait, wait, don't tell me," where the listener has to determine which of three presented new stories is real.

In Maracas invented story, Firth was suspended from his job for borrowing Bunsen burners to use as a candelabra during his performances. Because he could not afford a real one. Rocka explains he then set up a GoFundMe page to raise the funds for a Camelot real candelabra

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