Bob Hope, comic entertainer, dead at 100

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- Bob Hope's one-liners gently poked fun at presidents, blunted the sting of combat for American soldiers from World War II to the Gulf War, and ultimately made him the most revered of American comics.

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