Amos was hooked.
He took what he learned there, said Toledoan Josephine Geha-Zraik, who came to know Danny quite well before he went on to fame. The Jacobs boys were all musically inclined, she remembers. Danny played the spoons, was a good dancer, and a great storyteller.
“Danny was absolutely hilarious. I’ve never heard anyone who could tell a story like he could,” she said.
It was something he enjoyed, said his only surviving brother, Eddie Jacobs. “They were long, drawn-out stories with a punch.”
He dropped out of Woodward High School as a junior to pursue his show business dream. It was not until he landed a job in 1940 at the 5100 Club in Chicago that he changed his name.
“He took the name of the youngest brother Danny, and theStores Inc.; Anthony Carter, global diversity officer for Johnson & Johnson; and Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, senior vice president, public affairs and government relations for The Nielsen Company.

The National Grocers Association (NGA) announced that it is partnering with the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business and Unilever to expand its highly regarded executive leadership development program, which is currently offered at Cornell University through funding provided by PepsiCo, Inc. The expansion will now include two programs offered at Cornell and USC, allowing NGA to increase annual participation from 36 executives to more than 50.

More than 250 NGA member executives representing senior leadership from more than 100 independent retailers and wholesalers have graduated from the Cornell program since its inception. PepsiCo Inc. sponsors the Cornell program through funding