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{{Information |Description=Alan Dale |Source=Ad on page 215 of [https://books.google.com/books?id=cBoEAAAAMBAJ Billboard 1944 Music Yearbook] |Date=1944 |Author={{unknown|author}} |Permission={{PD-US-no notice}} * The ad appeared in a 1944 issue of ''B...