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Sullivan noted that, in the state of New York, integration was taken for granted in high-school sports: 'When we went up into Connecticut, we ran into clubs that had Negro players. With the baseball team, Sullivan was a catcher and the team's captain, leading the team to several championships. He played football as a halfback, basketball as a guard and track as a sprinter. Sullivan was a gifted athlete in high school, earning 12 athletic letters at Port Chester High School. The family loved music, frequently playing the piano, singing and playing phonograph records. Sullivan was raised in Port Chester, New York, where the family lived in a small red brick home at 53 Washington Street. His twin brother Daniel was sickly and lived only a few months. (née Smith) and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee. Sullivan was born on September 28, 1901, in Harlem, New York City, to Elizabeth F.

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From the start, he was indeed 'the Toast of the Town'.' In 1996, Sullivan was ranked number 50 on TV Guide's '50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time'. Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was. Before the Comedy Channel, even before there was The Tonight Show, Sullivan discovered, anointed and popularized young comedians. Before Bravo, he presented jazz and classical music and theater. As critic David Bianculli wrote, 'Before MTV, Sullivan presented rock acts. Sullivan was a broadcasting pioneer during the early years of American television. 'It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories.' 'It was, by almost any measure, the last great American TV show', said television critic David Hinckley. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. He was the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show.

Edward Vincent Sullivan (Septem– October 13, 1974) was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.