Thursday, October 25, 2012

From Chic Silber #1



 Kilroy Was Here

The most popular cartoon of the U.S. Soldiers during World War II
Manchester NJ World War II Veterans Memorial Park

3 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

I know where Kilroy is but where's everybody else? We're not getting much chatter around here lately.

I thought sure someone would chime in and tell us whether George Smith did time or not.

Chic Silber said...



Must have been a lot of draft dodgers

John Herriott said...

Yes George Smith did a year and a day as did Ayelworth, and Haley. It is true about the Deacon getting off. He said he could be replaced and that the show was going before him and would continue on. From prison George would go to Grift show, Dailey Bros as head honcho and owner was sick and couldn't ramrod the show. It is said that Smith did a superlative good job for, I believe a couple seasons and then Clyde Beatty brought him over to manage his railroad show.Even later he would take over the advance of RBBB. Quite a guy.