Dale Sheets During his 70-year career, he helped guide the careers of Bob Newhart, Bob Barker, Mel Tormé and Vic Damone. Dale Sheets, the onetime right-hand man for Lew Wasserman at MCA and Universal who went on to serve as the personal manager for such singers as Mel Tormé, Vic Damone and Patti Page, has died. He was 91. Sheets died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox announced. In 1954, Sheets was working at United Television Programs when the company was acquired by MCA, and Wasserman became his boss. A year later, at age 25, he was the youngest vice president in MCA history.