Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lecture in November and December, Fuller in February and March, and Nervi in April and May. Next year will mark the first time that the annual Norton Professorship has been shared. In the past, the series has consisted of six lectures, three in the fall, and three in the spring, on either literature, music...
...Austin's KTBC-TV, in which Mrs. Lyndon Johnson holds a majority of the stock, came $25,000; the Ford Foundation pledged $40,000. With $112,000 to go, Greenburg got another philanthropic windfall of $55,000. Keeping it secret, he called a mass meeting of businessmen to spring his surprise. "I'll take 5% of what's left," cried a gleeful brewer. In ten minutes channel 9 had a full till...
About then, Fritz swore off wild oats, in 1931 married Ernestine Zwerleine, later a John Frederics millinery model, daughter of a Viennese architect. He also teamed up with Lyricist Earle Crooker, wrote Salute to Spring (1937), which did moderately well in St. Louis but never moved East, and Great Lady (1938), which opened as will Camelot in Broadway's Majestic Theater, and closed after 17 performances. For four years, Fritz wrote almost nothing but sketches and songs for the Lambs Club Gambols, the intramural games of Broadway. Then a friend in Detroit asked him to do a show...
Patterns. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote that musical, The Life of the Party, in twelve days, and it ran nine weeks in Detroit. What's Up (1943) was their first on Broadway. The Day Before Spring (1945) won lower-middling reviews and closed after five months. Then 1947's Brigadoon spread the L. & L. tartan down Shubert Alley. In 1951 they achieved a sluggish eight months' run with Paint Your Wagon, a mining-camp western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar...
...Sullivan case was trouble that the Times might have avoided. When the ad was submitted to the paper last spring, no one apparently bothered to check it carefully for fact. Not until Governor Patterson demanded and got a public apology from the paper in May did the Times discover that the ad contained at least one error in fact together with some dangerous implications...