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Erlich said that in protesting the institute's invitation, he cited a passage from Rhode's book on Polish history published in 1941, which praised Adolph Hitler for his 1939 decison to invade Poland...
...Times has been the newspaper for competitors to reckon with ever since Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896, 45 years after the paper was founded by a Republican politician and a few months before it would have died of terminal mismanagement. Ochs (which he pronounced ox, its meaning in German), the Cincinnati-born son of German-Jewish immigrants, had at the age of 20 acquired the flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers...
Shredded Strings. This season's array of gifted college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were...
...PARTY WITH BETTY COMDEN AND ADOLPH GREEN...
...party, according to Webster's, is a social gathering for pleasure, and by that definition-or any other-an evening with Betty Comden and Adolph Green is an invitation into high society. For more than 30 years this prolific writing team has enchanted theater audiences with book and lyrics for such hits as On the Town and Bells Are Ringing and delighted moviegoers with films like The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain. Now, for six weeks, Comden and Green are back on Broadway, doing their own numbers in their...