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...Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal for My Fair Lady with Warner, and he is now arranging the movie sale of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying-which may break Lady's alltime record-for Broadway Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin...
...With a magnificent two-hitter. Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, beat Chicago, 8-0, became the fourth pitcher in major-league history to win 20 games in each of twelve seasons. The others: Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson. Spahn now has 308 victories, needs only 17 more to become the winningest lefthander of all time...
...Loesser's Frank Music Corp. had the new labor force organized. Admen could buy high-test jingles written by the firm's herd of known and unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...
...Cy" Widen had no need to fear on that December day in 1942. The Nazi pilot did not harm him, instead set down his 109 and went over to meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them...
Last week Cy Widen, now 43, an Air Force major and a training officer for several fighter squadrons at Malmstrom A.F.B. in Great Falls, Mont., leafed through his diary to stir that 18-year-old memory. The leafing was prompted by the news of a strange sequel. From a West German soldier named Alfons Hafner came word of a promise that he had made to his brother Toni before the ace died during the war: Alfons would find the American pilot and give him some remembrance of that brief encounter in Tunisia. Ace Toni did not know the American...