Gene Shalit [SEP] educated at
for six years at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1943–1949).
Career.
Shalit, according to a "New York Times Magazine" interview of Dick Clark, was Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit reportedly "stopped representing" Clark during a Congressional investigation of payola. Clark never spoke to Shalit again, and referred to him as a "jellyfish", an informal term for "a person without strong resolve or stamina".
Shalit has been involved in reviewing the arts
team that won the gold medal in Men's team sabre at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States.
- Warner R. Schilling (1925–2013), political scientist and international relations scholar at Columbia University.
- Gene Shalit (born 1926), longtime film critic on network television.
- Willa Shalit (born 1955), artist, theatrical and television producer, photographer, author/editor, and social conscious entrepreneur.
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