Dan Rowan papers 1941-1987
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MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986
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American novelist. From the description of The end of the night, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536373 The University of British Columbia's third president, John Barfoot Macdonald, was born in Toronto on February 23, 1918. Graduating with a degree of doctor of dental surgery from the University of Toronto in 1942, he served as captain in the Canadian Dental Corps during World War II. Following the war Macdonald studied biology at the University of Illinois and Colum...
Martin, Dick, 1922-
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Rowan, Dan
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Dan Rowan was the straight man on the famous Rowan and Martin comedy team. He was born Daniel Hale David in Beggs, Oklahoma, on July 2, 1922. He danced and sang in a carnival with his parents until he was orphaned at the age of eleven. He frequently ran away from a Colorado orphanage until he was eventually allowed to leave, officially. After he graduated from high school, he hitchhiked to Hollywood and became a writer at Paramount. He entered the Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor a...