Word: danker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz...
Died. Daniel Joseph ("Danny") Danker Jr., 41, fireball advertising man (J. Walter Thompson); of a heart attack; in Hollywood. At 24, Phillips Exeter and Harvard-educated, Danker arrived in Hollywood scared stiff, green as grass, with a cultivated Brooklyn accent and a way about him that eventually collared the biggest names in cinema for such radio shows as Lux, Kraft Music Hall, Charlie McCarthy...
...same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...