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Word: kazanova (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Stack was a gas-company clerk when he sent his first shy offerings to Winchell. Winchell all but scared Stack away by giving him a byline. After that Stack was billed as the Melancholy Don, Kid Kazanova, Don Wahn, or Donna Wahnna -all trademarks of a kind of heartburn that became a regular Winchell symptom. Winchell never got a bill from him, never paid him and never met him, but the verses got Stack his greeting-card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Melancholy Don | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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