As a child growing up in the Bronx, Harold Lipshitz dreamed of becoming a big-band leader. After receiving his high school diploma, he decided to change his name. “Swing and sway with Harold ...

Back when Hal Linden was Harold Lipshitz, a Jewish kid from the Bronx, he dreamed of becoming a big-band leader. “So I felt I had to change my name,” says Linden, best-known as the stalwart ...

Hal Linden was born Harold Lipshitz in New York City in 1931, but changed his last name—inspired by the town of Linden, New Jersey—when he got into show business. While I was interviewing ...