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...plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...
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