Uncle Mort Hits 105… It may be that my Uncle Mort and George M. Cohan, “the man who owned Broadway,” may not have as much in common as we’ve been led to believe. For years, Mort has claimed that he and the “Yankee Doodle Dandy” share the same birthday. “Yep, July 4th was the big day for him and it still is for me,” Mort has bragged, until the world looked level. “The song says he was ‘a real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, born on the Fourth of July’,” Mort reminds us, brea ...