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...Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 satire on Nazi politics featured Carole Lombard in her last role...
...since 1969, admits that the figures can be manipulated up and down at will, though he denies any such tampering in his own department: "Where did 202 crimes a day go? I mean, I didn't eat them!" One answer comes from the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst, which recently audited the D.C. police records and found that more than 1,000 thefts of over $50 had been purposely downgraded to below $50. That made them petty larceny and dropped them from the roster of major crimes. Princeton Political Scientist David Seidman, who helped conduct another study of Washington...
...Hopkins, 69, sprightly blonde star of dozens of movies in the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in New York. A vivacious talker with a honeyed Georgia drawl off-camera, Hopkins on-screen cast shrewd eyes on her leading men. One of her early hits was Director Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). She heightened her stardom with the title role in Hollywood's first full-length Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp (1935), and the controversial These Three (1936). One of Hopkins' major professional regrets: turning down the female lead in It Happened One Night...
...Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor and a close friend and colleagues of Rowland, yesterday called him "a fundamentally upright and decent person with an entertaining deadpan sense of humour." He added that Rowland was "a devoted teacher," who, because of his diverse areas of expertise, is "totally irreplaceable to the department...
...continued to express his love of contemporary music in the most practical way. Each year he has set aside up to $100,000 and, through his Fromm Music Foundation, parceled it out in commissions to an international Who's Who of composers: Milton Babbitt, Alberto Ginastera, Alan Hovhaness, Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe -some 90 names in all. Composer Gunther Schuller describes Fromm as "the single most important benefactor in the field of contemporary music...