midwesterner: My husband just told me he doesn’t recall Rav Chaim being the Baal Mussaf, but he stands corrected. Whenever Rav Dovid Oppen would come to New York from Eretz Yisroel to collect funds for his seminary, Machon Devorah, he would call my husband and they would sit and schmooze for hours. My husband tells me that he was a true ??? in the entire ???. My husband like all the bochrim from telz, took their driving courses at Mathers High School. At 15, you got a junior license and at 16 a regular one. My husband and Rav Oppen and his family were so close that he gave him a copy of his car keys to use when the car was available. ??? ?????? of course. My husband remembers when one of his twin boys was struck by a car, and his life hung in the balance for close to 3 weeks.
He was close as well to Rabbi Shmuel Fuerst, as his parents lived only 1/2 block from my in-laws in Boro Park, and he knew him from before.