From last Friday's (3/10/95) Boston Globe. Enjoy. It Runs in the Family A top Clintonista recently quoted in The New Republic says of Newton's own Barney Frank: "The guy is [expletive] brilliant, out-of-this-world smart." Well, he comes by it on his father's side. That's right, Rep. Frank numbers among his relations Shemp Howard, of the Three Stooges fame. (Stoogeophiles remember that Shemp was the one with the straight black hair, who joined brother Moe and replaced brother Curly in the greatest show busines team ever assembled.) "Howard [nee Horowitz] married a cousin of my father's," Frank explains. "My family was made up of successful businessmen, who were somewhat embarrassed when she married an actor. Then when everyone went broke in the depression, and he was making money, they learned to love him." End of Article Thus are linked one of history's great clowns, and the congressman who took more balls off the chin than Carlton Fisk. Truth is stranger than Fiction. Peter P.S. Pro, are you still in for Saturday Night??? Let me know. . .