During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer‘s New York World and William Randolph Hearst‘s New York Journal. Hearst had the eight-page Women’s Home Journal and the 16-page Sunday American Magazine, which later became The American Weekly.In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the New York Journal from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst’s Sunday magazine, later commenting,"Nothing is so stale as yesterday’s newspaper, but The American Weekly may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest.
Dan Blocker was born in Del Kalb, Texas. At the age of 12 years old (above) he was at the Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and was already over 6 feet tall and 200 .lbs.
In 1940, Dan enrolled in Hardin-Simmons University and Sul Ross State University where he earned a degree in speech and drama.
Blocker was a high-school English and drama teacher in Sonora, Texas, from 1953 to 1954, a sixth-grade teacher and coach at Eddy Elementary School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and then a teacherin California. Blocker and his wife Dolphia, moved to Los Angeles where he secured some acting roles.
Blocker (center) playing football at Sul Ross University in 1946.
In 1957, Blocker appeared in a Three Stooges short, Outer Space Jitters, playing the Goon,billed as "Don Blocker". He made two appearances on Gunsmoke (CBS) as a blacksmith.
Blocker’s big break also came in 1959, when he was cast as "Hoss" Cartwright on the NBC television series Bonanza and played the role in 415 episodes until his death in 1972.
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972)
Jim Seals was a one-half member of the American soft rock band Seals and Crofts who are world-famous for their hits like summer Breeze and Diamond girl. Jim Seals, half of the 1970s band Seals and Crofts, died at the age of 80. Seals, half of the ‘Summer Breeze’ duo Seals & Crofts (below).
Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022)
Philip Baker Hall, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable character actors, has died at the age of 90. He was best known today for his roles on “Seinfeld” and in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The news was first announced by Hall’s neighbor and friend, Los Angeles sports writer Sam Farmer, on Twitter. Hall died from emphysema at his home in Glendale, California.
