Spotlight on Lee Falk - Timeline

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Lee Falk
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Biographical information
Born: April 28, 1911
Died: March 13, 1999
Nationality: Mini usa.gif American
Occupation: Writer
Website:


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

  1. With office in Washington D.C. ! Not at a local Illinois radio station.

References

  1. 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
  2. St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 23 December 1913
  3. 1920 United States Federal Census, St. Louis City, Missouri
  4. The Illio, Yearbook 1932. Univerity of Illinois, p 70, 551, 585
  5. Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4 - Works of Art, Etc. New Series, 1934, 66
  6. St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis) 4 October 1935
  7. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

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