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...Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls' original Sister Sara, was mangling one of his songs that he socked her. Yet under the Cagney bully-bravado shone a big heart and the impulse to help other young composers. Among Loesser's proteges: Jerry Ross and Richard Adler, who did The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, Meredith Willson of Music Man fame and Hello, Dolly!s Jerry Herman...
DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...STRENGTH program includes weekly lectures about nutrition, physical fitness, and mental health aimed to...address challenges that kids and their families are facing, and one-on-one mentoring sessions to provide individual attention and support for kids to make changes in lifestyle,” according to Beth Adler, youth programs manager for Project HEALTH. This past fall, 81 Harvard undergraduates served as volunteer mentors for Project HEALTH. One student, Obinna O. Orji ’08, is now the project coordinator for STRENGTH and helped to design its curriculum by collecting surveys from patients and their families...
...southeast gale and an undersea earthquake sent the sea flooding through Venice. Four feet of water overflowed the Piazza San Marco. Yet according to Peter Lauritzen in Venice Preserved (Adler & Adler; 176 pages; $29.95), the deluge bore good fortune. It helped to jolt the world into rescuing Venice from nearly two centuries of decay and depredation. Photographers Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus record the resurrection of the city. Lauritzen combines a sure hand for history with a light satirical touch for the bureaucracy of restoration...
...prosecutor Antonio Spataro began investigating whether CIA agents had rendered an Egyptian prisoner, Abu Omar-Osama Nasr, illegally from Italy. Spataro told Grey that among the findings that most surprised him was the high-ticket hotel bills in his city; two alleged CIA agents under the names of Monica Adler and John Duffin spent $18,000 in a three-week stay at the Milan Savoy. Spataro has since issued warrants for their arrest, along with that of other U.S. citizens, in connection with the kidnapping of Nasr, who was sent to Cairo from Milan...