Dick Durrell

Male, Deceased Person

1925 – 2008

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Who was Dick Durrell?

Richard J. Durrell was an American advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for People magazine.

Durrell turned down an offer to play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise in order to attend the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1948.

For most of his career he worked for Time Inc., retiring in 1983. In his retirement years, he occasionally taught a course titled "Magazine Publication and Related Communications" at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

He was married to Jacky Durrell, a former Connecticut State Representative and First Selectman of Fairfield.

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Born
1925
Education
  • University of Minnesota
Died
Mar 7, 2008

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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