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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...
...cranked out his sweet-&-sour rhymes for 25 years, not even pausing at the death of his son (1942) and his first wife (in childbirth, two years later). Lately he seemed to tire of his monotonous Muse; in January Donna Wahnna wrote...
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