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- Dec. 02, 1991: Died:David ("Sonny") Werblin
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 87
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- <p> DIED. David ("Sonny") Werblin, 81, multimillionaire talent
- agent and a founding owner of the New York Jets; in New York
- City. Werblin, who climbed the ladder at the talent agency
- M.C.A. to represent Shirley MacLaine and Dean Martin, in 1963
- bought a share of the New York Titans, renamed the Jets. By
- signing quarterback Joe Namath to the team at a salary of more
- than $400,000, Werblin helped start a bidding war for football
- players. "My life," he once said, "has been selling tickets."
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