Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four of the seven $500 painting awards to artists still outside the gallery circuit, tapped lesser-knowns as well for the two $500 sculpture awards. The painting winners: Manhattan's Zygmunt Menkes for his bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green...
Married. Edward G. Robinson, 64, Rumanian-born, onetime cigar-munching cinema tough guy (Little Caesar), now cast as a middle-aged Romeo in Paddy Chayefsky's play Middle of the Night; and Jane Adler, 38, sometime New York dress designer now working backstage; both for the second time; in Arlington...
Married. Richard Adler, 34, Broadway tunesmith, co-author (with the late Jerry Ross) of music and lyrics for the hit shows, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees; and British Actress Sally Ann Howes, 27, who next month succeeds Julie Andrews as Eliza in My Fair Lady; both for the second time; in Arlington...
Perhaps no educator willing to rush into print thinks as little of U.S. education as Stringfellow Barr. Now professor of humanities at Rutgers, he has taught at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, pioneered (with Hutchins and Adler) the Great Books idea, served as president of Great Books-oriented St. John's College in Maryland. At 60, "Winkie" Barr has committed a first novel. Not surprisingly, it is about life among professors, and even less surprisingly, it says that U.S. professors, students, college presidents and trustees are a sorry...
During his regime Adler has at times misfired: last year's Boris Godunov, for instance, was a murky failure. But how well Adler has done is amply demonstrated by the fact that last month he and his company casually shrugged off cancellations by Sopranos Maria Callas and Antonietta Stella, promptly went on to give San Francisco what may well be its most stimulating opera season to date...