This Week in Texas History: Mysterious death of a comic genius

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Ted Healy, the comic genius behind “The Three Stooges,” kissed his wife and three-day old baby goodnight on Dec. 20, 1937 and headed for his favorite Hollywood haunts to celebrate the birth of his first child.The name on the future comedian’s birth certificate was “Ernest Lea Nash” or “Clarence Lee…

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