Bill Persky

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Emerging from a Jewish family in Arkansas, Persky studied advertising at Syracuse University before entering New York’s commercial world and later joining radio station WNEW, where a partnership with Sam Denoff sparked a move to Los Angeles and a stint writing for The Steve Allen Show. The duo soon contributed some of the most celebrated scripts to The Dick Van Dyke Show and went on to create the…