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...could achieve the compression of poetry with three astonishing leaps of mood: "The way you hold your knife. "The way we danced till three," The way you've changed my life-/ No, no! They can't take that away from me!" Wrote Broadway Songwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green of lyrics like these: "It's very clear they're here to stay-as long as anyone remembers anything about the 20th century...
...seemed completely happy with the decision. Lloyd McBride, president of the United Steelworkers of America, complained that the President should have used lower quotas rather than higher tariffs to block imports. Said he: "Where tariffs are substituted for quotas, it never works." Adolph Lena, chairman of Al Tech Specialty Steel Co. in Dunkirk, N.Y., and an industry spokesman, called the measures "wholly inadequate...
Though he is little known to the general public, Developer A. (for Adolph) Alfred Taubman, 59, is one of the wealthiest men in America. Over the past 33 years, he has amassed an empire that includes 25 major shopping centers in the U.S., 800 A & W fast-food outlets, 100 movie theaters and a personal fortune estimated at $525 million. Now Taubman, who operates out of Troy, Mich., is going after one of the most prestigious properties of all: Sotheby Parke Bernet Group, the tradition-laden British art auction house. Said Taubman in announcing his offer of at least...
...Soldier's Play. Charles Fuller's drama of tensile strength about a World War II black outfit stationed in Louisiana that gets involved in a racial whodunit. The central character, brilliantly portrayed by Adolph Caesar, is a black Regular Army noncom who is as tough as bully beef...
...more than several sizes larger than standard: 6 ft. 3½ in., 210 lbs., 322 victories (more of those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted...