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Married. Richard Adler, 34, Broadway tunesmith, co-author (with the late Jerry Ross) of music and lyrics for the hit shows, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees; and British Actress Sally Ann Howes, 27, who next month succeeds Julie Andrews as Eliza in My Fair Lady; both for the second time; in Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...back). A year ago the government sent Dr. Vincent Zigas, Estonian-born district medical officer, into the Fore country to investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singers' Holiday | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Several pages in English are devoted to Eliza's escape in Uncle Tom's Cabin. ("Oh, missis, dear missis. I know what master is going to do tonight. I am going to try to save...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Doublethink | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...charm on the boards. A boulder of a word, reduced to pebble-size by too much fingering, "charm" comes from the Latin for incantation and implies the use of magic. No one who has seen Fair Lady denies that Rex exerts a sort of magic-who else could growl: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?" and make it a moving proposal of marriage-but few can agree on just where it lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Charmer | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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