Description: Up for auction "King Features" Hal Kaufman Hand Signed TLS Dated 1975. ES-506A Hal Kaufman, feature editor for King Features Syndicate, passed away on January 10, 2014. He was best-known, over a 60-year career, for his widely-distributed puzzle features “Magic Spell,” “Hocus Focus,” and “Junior Whirl.” He retired from King Features in 1998. Kaufman was born January 3, 1920 in West New York, N.J. He was a 1937 graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School, where he was editor of the school paper and worked as a high school sports correspondent for the Nyack Journal before attending Merchant & Banker Business School. His first job was on Coene’s Farm in Monsey, N.Y., where he was a farmhand. He joined King Features in 1937, at age, 17, and worked his way from the mail room to the copy desk, the library, and the general editorial department. He edited columns by Dorothy Kilgallen, Dan Parker, Bill Corum, Westbrook Pegler, Bennett Cerf and others. He also compiled two national daily quiz columns, “What’s the Answer?” and “Factoquiz.” In 1942 he entered the Army Signal Corps, serving as a tech sergeant in the Army Air Force. Before his discharge in 1945, he served as managing editor of the unit newspaper at Robin’s Field, Ga., and as unit correspondent for the Times at Kelly Field, Texas. Kaufman returned to King Features in 1946, working as associate editor of the Saturday Home Magazine, which appeared in New York and Chicago. He also worked briefly as a spot news reporter for the Central Press Association. As senior editor at King Features Special Services Department, he serialized fiction and nonfiction, prepared specialized magazine supplements and compiled and edited the Puzzle and Pastimes Page, syndicated worldwide. In 1969, he originated the word feature “Magic Spell” along with the picture puzzle “Hocus Focus,” later collected in book format, and the Sunday feature “Junior Whirl,” distributed to more than 200 newspapers nationally.
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