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Article: Commentary: CPAs I have known - Part 6.
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- Accounting Today
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- October 22, 2007
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W. DOUG SPRAGUE
He was born William Douglas Sprague. On one occasion, I heard someone call him "Bill" and he seemed to grimace. He was not a "Bill" - he was a "Doug."
When I was 10, there were numerous movie theatres that charged 5 cents or 10 cents for "silent" films. There was no sound, but an experienced lady sat up front at a player piano. If "bad guys" had tied the heroine to the railroad tracks, she played the music dramatic and heart-rending. But soon the good guys were galloping on the scene and untied the frightened heroine - to great applause from the audience.
My favorite silent film actor was Douglas Fairbanks Sr., handsome, ...