Allen asked him to immediately fly to Toronto for a midnight meeting with USFL money-men at the home of multi-millionaire and league creative guru John Bassett.
In 1952, Bassett purchased part ownership of the Toronto Telegram.
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John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.
Johnny Strike (born Gary John Bassett, June 6, 1948, in Bryn Mawr, PA and raised in Harrisburg, PA) is an American writer, mostly known as songwriter, guitarist and singer for the proto-punk band Crime based in San Francisco.