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...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...
Next day, with the Yanks trailing 7-1, he hit another homer with two men on, to put his team back in the game. Three innings later he homered again, to win it. After the game, Joe Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound...
...worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka to 30 papers in 25 days, then sold it to McNaught...
...Manhattan last week, an educator admitted that the students knew what they were talking about. Said Dr. John E. Dugan, president of the National Education Association's department of secondary schoolteachers: "If a teacher is to arouse enthusiasm for the good life . . . he or she should be able to follow the normal process of having dates, getting married, and leading a normal life without undue snooping, sniping, and interference from public busybodies ... Teachers must have the right to be human...
...management... is willing to risk being won over to the Free Enterprise system of Wall Street and the N.A.M. by the 'propaganda' in Reg'lar Fellers. Well, there's your challenge: don't you trust Jimmy Dugan and Fatso to stay true to capitalism ... in the columns of the Daily Worker...