Word: dugan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach ulcer from each of three...
...Chuckle. Many of the boys prop up their fan appeal with wholesale giveaway of wristwatches, electric blankets, home freezers and sports shirts. Standouts in this field are Art Linkletter and his House Party, Welcome Travelers' Tommy Bartlett (noted as the possessor of the "candy-coated chuckle"), and Johnny Dugan of Breakfast in Hollywood, which last week was dropped from TV because of lack of sponsors...
...Aladore Herman), 81, who made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...