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Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
...publication The Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation was organized as an independent, nonprofit educational corporation in 1947, many years before Britannica's Great Books set was even published. We have no affiliation with Britannica except historically through association with Messrs. Hutchins and Adler, who did the pioneer work in starting Great Books seminars for adults when they were at the University of Chicago...
MORTIMER J. ADLER...
...project like this it would have been sheer madness to settle for anything less than top talent. Broadway Composer Richard Adler (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees) did the score and lyrics. One of the men who won Oscars for scoring West Side Story stayed up all night doing the arrangement. Musicians came from the New York Philharmonic. The high-paid, high-caliber Hi-Lo's were there to do the singing. After 29 takes. Composer Adler was still dissatisfied. "It must have that ping. That's the feel I want implemented, band-wise." Take No. 30 was pingsville...
...such gassers Adler gets paid in five figures. Of all the Broadway types who pick up extra jingle writing jingles (TIME, April 21, 1961) he is, by his own description, "the top man in the field." His monumental arias of trade include You'll Feel Better About Smoking with the Taste of Kent, Kent with the Micronite Filter; the rousing Big Gallon song, the Cities Service Suite; Newport Filter Cigarettes, Newport Filter Cigarettes; the Bon Ami Jet Spray Sonata; and the battle hymn of York Imperial-size Cigarettes. Soon radio and TV audiences will be hearing his latest creation...