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...cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...