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...sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine...
Theodore Olin Thackrey used to be managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
Jule wrote the music two years ago; but Sammy had been fighting the lyrics...
...Muny" has gone in the hole only twice in its history-once 30 years ago, when a flash flood washed away half the scenery and instruments on opening night, and once during the depression. Both times the backers were paid back within two years. One big reason is that their summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan...
...year and a half ago, Ernest Salisbury was committed to a mental ward in Eloise, Mich. as an alcoholic. He spent days there scribbling musical notations on scraps of paper. When the hospital's music therapists got a look at them, they found that