Duane C. Rice, 1925-2009: Ad agency founder was known as 'Hot Stuff' with Shriners clowns
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Article by By Trevor Jensen | Tribune reporter, January 27, 2009
Duane C. Rice took a shine to art and circuses as a boy, and he pursued those interests through adulthood with a career in advertising and a sideline as a clown known as "Hot Stuff."
Mr. Rice, 83, died of complications form Parkinson's disease Sunday, Jan. 18, in the Presbyterian Home in Evanston, where he had lived for the last three years, said his son Lindsay.
Mr. Rice came to Chicago from Battle Creek, Mich., after high school to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under Ruth Van Sickle ...