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Willie's proclivity for creating gags emerged as the humor writer for the Glenville High School "Torch," on which he worked alongside future playwright Jerome Lawrence and the creators of Superman , Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster . After earning a BS in education he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a comedian. There he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, had a skill for writing, and soon the two were contributing sketch comedy to night-club performers including Kaye Ballard and Eileen Barton , and then to the Broadway review Tickets Please . They worked extensively in early television, particularly the children's programs Howdy Doody and Tom Corbett Space Cadet, although they also sold material to such mainstream performers as Jackie Gleason . They achieved their first Broadway success as coauthors of the book for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying in 1962 , for which they shared in two Tony Awards . Later Gilbert and Weinstock wrote the books for Hot Spot and Catch Me If You Can . Weinstock died in 1969 , as the team was writing another Broadway musical, "The Candy Store." In the 1970s Gilbert returned to children's television, writing gags for Yogi Bear , Scooby Doo and other Hanna-Barbera characters. |
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