Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a Porter song is finished, it generally has a few added staves that are the germ of an orchestral arrangement. He writes out the lyrics in a neat, printlike hand, to be typed by his secretary. First to hear the music is Budapest-born Dr. Albert Sirmay, chief editor of Chappell & Co., Porter's publishers, and also his musical secretary, friend and adviser for 22 years. While the composer plays the song on one of his baby grands, Dr. Sirmay jots down notes and sometimes warns him about cribbing inadvertently from the 400 songs (250 of them published...
JOURNAL OF FORGOTTEN DAYS: 1934-35 (145 pp.)-Albert Jay Nock-Henry Regnery...
...Albert Jay Nock was a mysterious man. Not that he ever seemed to be one-the literary public knew him as an editor (the highbrowed, low circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
Reviewers did not always like Nock's books, and it is easy to see why. They nodded respectfully to his fine style, but belabored his single-tax theories. What he had to say was said merely with increasing stridency as he grew older. Albert Jay Nock was persuaded that his civilization was creaking badly and in sore need of repair, but all he chose to do about it was to utter the graceful melancholies of an innate Tory who does not care to bring his own talents to the aid of a program...
Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures." (Others: Ormond E. Hunt, 65, specialist in production problems, and Albert Bradley, 57, financial expert.) Last month Mr. Coyle went to Washington, where a Senate committee wanted to talk with him about G.M. profits (which hit an astronomical net of about $450 million last year). Neither apologetic nor apoplectic, Witness Coyle pointed out that G.M.'s prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators...