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Three-Time Loser. Beefy Alfred Dugan was a thug, and he had a long and varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in Asbury Park, N.J. Paroled after five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned...
White and Dugan exchanged bitter words near the company gate. Then White rode off in his 1958 Thunderbird, and Dugan took off after him in his 1956 Ford station wagon. Two sheriff's deputies, on duty at the plant, spotted the two cars pulling away, decided to go after them. Half a mile away, the deputies came across Dugan's parked car. Nearby, they found Dugan's body, sprawled face downward beside a brook. He had been shot in the back. As police reconstructed the shooting, Dugan, unarmed this time, ran away when White drew his pistol...
...Time Threat. Arrested in his factory office, White unhesitatingly admitted that he had killed Dugan. Dazed from strain and sleeplessness, White told an incoherent story. When he noticed that Dugan was following him, he said, he stopped his car and got out. Dugan parked, came toward him with his hand in his trench-coat pocket. Thinking that Dugan had a pistol, Malcolm White went "berserk," ag he told it, drew the pistol for which he had got a permit a month before, and started shooting...
...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...