Spotlight on Lee Falk - Timeline
| Lee Falk | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Born: | April 28, 1911 |
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| Died: | March 13, 1999 |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Occupation: | Writer |
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There exist many smaller biographies of Lee Falk, but all contain some minor errors. The purpose of this page is making a timeline of which each point has one or more references, other than Lee Falk himself.
Timeline
1910-1919
- 1911, April 28: Leon Harrison Gross is born i St. Louis to Eleanor Allina and Benjamin Gross.
- 1913: Eleanor and Benjamin Gross get divorced [1].
- 1913, December: Eleanor Allina Gross remarries to Albert Falk Epstein [2], and from boyhood through his college education Leon was known as Leon H. Epstein.
- 1915, April 19: Leon's brother Leslie Alan Epstein is born [3].
1920-1929
- 1924: Leon enrols at Soldan High School.
- 1928: Leon enrols at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign.
1930-1939
- 1932: Leon graduates from the Univerity of Illinois, Liberal Arts and Sciences - English [4]. Listed with: Zeta Beta Tau; Pi Delta Phi; Kappa Phi Sigma; The Daily Illini (1, 2, 3) and Honors Day (1, 2, 3).
- 1934, April 7: Leon copyrighted Mandrake the Magician under the name Leon Harrison Epstein and Lee Falk [5].
- 1934: By decree of the circuit court, St. Louis, Mo., Leon's name was legally changed from Leon H. Gross to Leon Harrison Epstein Falk [1].
- 1934, June 11: Mandrake the Magician daily comic strip debutes.
- 1935, February 3: Mandrake the Magician Sunday page debutes.
- 1935, October 1: Leon marries Louise Kanazireff, and honeymooned for a month in Mexico [6].
- 1936, February 17: The Phantom daily comic strip debutes.
- 1936, October 5: Lee and Louise Falk moved to New York.
- 1939, May 28: The Phantom Sunday page debutes.
1940-1949
- 1940, May 23: Lee and Louise's daughter Valerie is born.
- 1940: Lee Falk starts the Cambridge Summer Theatre with John Huntington and Miriam Battista.
- 1942: Office of Facts & Figures (later OWI) established a radio section in its Foreign Language Division with Lee Falk as chief [1][footnotes 1]. Chief of the Foreign Language Division was Alan MacGregor Cranston [1].
- 1944, March 7: Lee H. Falk is enlisted as private at Fort Devens in Massachusetts [7].
1950-1959
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Note
- ↑ With office in Washington D.C. ! Not at a local Illinois radio station.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Study and Investigation of the Federal Communications Commission: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Acting Under H. Res. 21, ..., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943, 390
- ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 23 December 1913
- ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri
- ↑ The Illio, Yearbook 1932. Univerity of Illinois, p 70, 551, 585
- ↑ Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4 - Works of Art, Etc. New Series, 1934, 66
- ↑ St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 4 October 1935
- ↑ U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946