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...should know. Such distinguished Broadway musicals as On the Town and Candide owe their instrumentation to him, and other arrangements of his are heard repeatedly on television and in the movies. Along with such men as the veteran Robert Russell Bennett (The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Camelot), Don Walker (Carousel, Me and Juliet), and the team of Irwin Kostal and Sid Ramin (West Side Story), Kay is a master arranger in the pop field-a kind of musical midwife whose job it is to take an embryonic hit and nurse it to lusty life. It is a process...
...last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting a man to the moon, they gonna need the money...
...Charlie Ravenel or the Mark Mullin, who just keeps going ahead in athletics with an interminable drive, determination, and winning enthusiasm for his sport all the way through school. To these people, athletics is a way of life. "My whole life has centered around athletics," Revenel said recently. "I owe everything to sports." He is the first Class Marshal this year, has received a $5,000 scholarship from Corning Glass Company to travel around the world, has been named co-recipient of the Bingham Award for this year, and has been admitted into Harvard Business School. That...
...whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed him on to the Duchess of Windsor. Says Alexandre: "I owe everything to her. It was she who set me up and sent me my first customers...
...cater to the nation's whims-you must also serve the nation's needs. The people own the air. They own it as much in prime evening time as they do at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. For every hour that the people give you, you owe them something. I intend to see that your debt is paid with service . . . Never have so few owed so much to so many...