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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Submarine. Handsome Jack Dorgan was a Navy diver. Between him and Bob Mason there was much horseplay and jostling, which, as every cinemaddict knows, is the way strong men have of showing affection for each other. Handsome Jack (Jack Holt) has an affair with Snuggles (Dorothy Revier), grows so fond of her ways that he actually marries her. Unknown to Handsome Jack, Snuggles seduces Best Friend Mason who happens to be a member of a submarine crew. When Jack learns that there has been an affair he is angry with his friend. The submarine in which Mason is cruising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Married. Miss Irene Dorgan, sister of famed cartoonist and sports writer, Tad Dorgan; to John J. Tierney; at Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Last week T. A. Dorgan ("Tad"), able cartoonist for the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Phrase? | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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