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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Marjorie Reynolds Holiday Inn is a plugger's triumph. Before dancing with Astaire, singing with Crosby, she made about 70 pictures-from a moppet role (age six) in Scaramouche to college musicals, Boris Karloff thrillers, scores of Monogram and Universal Westerns and cliffhangers. Thrown in as a last-minute stopgap for a heroineless Holiday Inn, she recalled enough of her former ballet training, enough of her singing voice to get by. Blonde Miss Reynolds (real name: Marjorie Goodspeed) adds a Wild-West charm to the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Plugger. In Tacoma, David C. Montgomery shot himself in the head with his rifle, reloaded, shot himself in the chest, reloaded, shot himself in the forehead. At the hospital he was expected to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1942 | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Died. Alva Blanchard Adams, 66, Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack; in Washington. Plugger for Government economy, he was the son of one thrift-minded Governor of Colorado in the '80s (Alva Adams), nephew of another Colorado Governor (William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...song of the white-collar man called from his office to bear the burdens of Democracy" (according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recruiting Song | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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