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- MILESTONES, Page 49
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- DIED. Melvin Jerome Blanc, 81, Hollywood's man of a thousand
- voices who created such beloved radio and cartoon characters as
- Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble,
- many of which he reprised in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit;
- in Los Angeles. When radio advertisers could not afford extra
- actors, Blanc's inexhaustible vocal cords and zany humor fashioned
- a gallery of heroes and villains for Jack Benny, Bob Hope and the
- George Burns and Gracie Allen show.