found: New York times WWW site, Apr. 28, 2010(in obituary published Apr. 27: Allen Swift; b. Ira Stadlen, Jan. 16, 1924, Washington Heights; changed his name when he started out in show business, combining the names of two of his favorite satirists, Fred Allen and Jonathan Swift; d. Apr. 18, Manhattan, aged 87; the voice of Mighty Mouse, Dinky Duck, and, for a brief period, Howdy Doody, not to mention an Eveready battery, a toilet plunger for Drano, Vita's Beloved Herring Maven, and other characters both human and inanimate in more than 30,000 television and radio commercials)