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...following inning Kirkland scored four runs after two men had been retired. Hopkins, Donaldson and Larry Galindo were hit by pitched balls, and John Adler drove in two with a single to center, taking second on the play at the plate. Selig completed the scoring with a two-run safety to left...
...Varsity boatings were Ted Wandel (bow), Bill Adler (2), Captain Dave Richards (3), Jim Miller (4), Mike Harde (5), Jon French (6), Francis Blake (7), Tony Goodman (stroke), and John Kearney...
...Would Know. Other composers have followed. Some agreed to write commercials as soon as they were asked, and others, it appears, held Faustian dialogues with themselves for as long as ten seconds. Adler describes his temptation: "They kept asking me, and I finally decided 'Why the hell not?' Rock 'n' roll was eating up all the air time anyway, and I was offered a good big piece of money [his take to date for five jingles: $250,000]. Besides, it never occurred to me that anyone would ever know I had done...
Before long, Loesser's Frank Music Corp. had the new labor force organized. Admen could buy high-test jingles written by the firm's herd of known and unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...
...works on the News of the Week in Review; she, a daughter of Major General Julius Ochs Adler, is a Sunday-edition picture editor...