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...pathology department of Tulane University's medical school, TIME reported allegations that the head of the department, Dr. Michael Gerber, may have faked his own death in an automobile accident. These allegations were made by persons involved in a lawsuit against Gerber. After further investigation by TIME and by Brill's Content magazine, we are convinced that Gerber and his wife died in the accident, and we apologize for any suggestions to the contrary. This correction was published November...
...come from nowadays -- this, this is a song, this wasn't written up there. This was written somewhere down in the United States." In fact, Dylan had kinship to those great songwriters, especially to the kids his age, at exactly this time, who were toiling away up in the Brill Building writing for Phil Spector and his black girl groups. The connection went back ever further, for Dylan was as brilliant and canny an imitator, synthesizer and transformer of folk music as Irving Berlin was of ragtime and George Gershwin of jazz. And within a few years, his songs would...
...blooming of the singer-songwriter, before performers were routinely called artists, before the unit of music was an album-groups relied on songwriters and producers to give them hit singles. The Drifters had Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller producing their hits, and a gang of young pros in the Brill Building (Goffin and King, Pomus and Shuman) writing them. The Seasons were lucky to align with producer Bob Crewe, who had written such hits as "Silhouettes" and "Tallahassee Lassie." They were even more fortunate that Bob Gaudio joined the Seasons in the late '50s-not as another voice...
...that the system could be used to spy on consumers, with a promise not to track cardholders' movements or sell their personal information. But the company, which relies on Lockheed Martin technology for its biometric identification cards, is not pitching itself as a cure-all. Says VIP founder Steven Brill: "This is not risk elimination. It's risk management...
...boasts several prominent names on its 11-member advisory board—including James M. Fallows ’70, a former Crimson president who also served as a speech writer to Jimmy Carter, and Steven Brill, a media critic and founder of The American Lawyer...