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Meredith Willson
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Musical director for NBC Radio's "The Big Show" (1950-1952).
Won Broadway's 1958 Tony Award for book, with collaborator
Franklin Lacey
, as well as music and lyrics of Best Musical winner "The Music Man."
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6411 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 885-887. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
His second wife, nicknamed Reenie, was a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Took a commercial-law class in high school.
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