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Sidney Slon
Sidney Slon (May 27, 1910 in Chicago – January 21, 1995) was an American radio and television writer and actor. In his lifetime, Slon had contributed to radio and television greatly, being the head writer of the famous radio show, The Shadow, as well as the radio show, Dick Tracy. He acted in the radio show, "The Goldberg's", and played the doctor. He also produced many television series that became great hits in the 1950s and 60s.
==Family and early life==
Sidney's father, originally Samuel Slonimsky, had emigrated to the United States from Russia around 1885 and worked handing glasses of water to theatre going patrons for tips. He was eight years old and this is how he learned English. Several years later, he worked in a large furniture store in Chicago as a salesman. The store had just installed a speaker and microphone, which to summon salesmen up to the desk. The manager asked Samuel Slonimsky if he could change his last name because, he said, it sounded too ethnic over the loud-speaker. Samuel complied and shortened it to Slon. Around five years later, Sidney was born.
Sidney Slon won an award at the age of twelve for designing and flying a model airplane in a city wide civic auditorium in 1922. The prize was a ride in a by-plane to Ohio. This event was sponsored by a local Chicago newspaper, and a reporter was seated in the plane as well. The plane crashed after taking off, unable to gain altitude with the extra weight. No one died in the crash, however the pilot was knocked unconscious. Sidney was unharmed, though shaken up. This became front page news for the local paper. The following week, the paper asked whether Sidney would be willing to try again; his mother, Mabel Finklestein, said no. Sidney attended North Western University as a pre-med student around 1929, he dropped out after two years to join the Goodman Theater. After completing the program he and another actor, Barry Kelley who starred later the movie, "Asphalt Jungle", moved to New York together, hoping to land parts on Broadway. Unfortunately, the Great Depression was in full swing, and life in the theater business was impossible. The two men made their way back home to Chicago despondent.
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