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Missed It By That Much

Can a man savvy enough to have a telephone in his shoe decades before the invention of the cell phone ever be out of touch? Sadly, Don Adams the comedian who brought the goofy but ever-triumphant Maxwell Smart to life in the 1960s TV show Get Smart has passed into the next world, where even the latest in technology cannot reach. Don Adams, was born Donald James Yarmy in New York on April 13, 1923.

Can a man savvy enough to have a telephone in his shoe decades before the invention of the cell phone ever be out of touch?

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