The television screen flashed that all-to-familiar headline of a death in the nation: a photo followed by a birth date and an exit date: In this case, a picture of Soupy Sales followed by the dates 1926-2009. "Nooo! Soupy's dead!" Detroiter Rodney McDonald, like many of us, grew up enjoying the antics of Soupy Sales, whom he often referred to by his given name, Milton Supman. I'm sure that even his parents stopped calling Soupy Milton, but Rodney enjoyed doing that. Like calling the Lone Ranger Brace Beemer (one of the Lone Ranger's voices on radio-- one that made him come alive for us), or referring to the singing cowboy, Roy Rogers (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) with the given name, Leonard Slye. Rodney has a thing for trivia. Milton came into his life around the time that Rodney's family moved from Paradise...
- 10/28/2009
- by Lester Sloan
- Huffington Post
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