Archive for June 13th, 2022

FATHER’S DAY – 1947

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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.



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ACTOR DAN BLOCKER BEFORE “BONANZA”

       

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 teacher in California. Blocker and his
wife Dolphia, moved to Los Angeles
where he secured
some acting roles.
          


Throwback Thursday: Dan Blocker – Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library
Blocker (center) playing football at Sul
Ross University in 1946.
       
     


    

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Blocker was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War
where he served as an infantry sergeant from December 1951
to August
 1952. He received a Purple Heart, for wounds in
combat, and several service medals.  

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.        


       
 
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Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972)

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SOFT ROCK BAND MEMBER HAS DIED AT 80

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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). 

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LEGENDARY CHARACTER ACTOR HAS DIED

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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.

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