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Researchers Eileen Chiu, Jane Furth, Villette Harris and Elizabeth D. Meyer spent five months helping him find the right words, while Picture Researcher Evelyn Merrin and the Time Inc. Picture Collection staff tracked down thousands of old photographs. As art director for the issue, Tom Bentkowski faced a particularly complex problem: recreating the typography and design that TIME used through the years. Some 300 format changes were fed into the magazine's computerized typesetting system, more than were required for the complete redesign of TIME...
...only disappointment is the book by George Furth. While it contains many funny scenes, the book ends with a dissipated defusing of the plot, in marked contrast to the explosive singing finale on stage...
...Overture scene is uncoordinated, with the cast speaking fragments of lines as they race around like a collection of mechanical birds. And towards the musical's end the weakness of Furth's book gives the impression that the show is not heading in any direction that could lead to a conclusion...
DIED. Louis Kissinger, 95, father of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; in Manhattan. A teacher in Furth, Germany, the elder Kissinger immigrated to the U.S. with his wife and two sons in 1938, just ahead of the Nazi onslaught, and later worked as a bookkeeper...
...valedictorian of 1955, he gives a ringing, idealistic peroration. In tracking back over the quarter-century, we watch this singularly unappealing hero being cruelly false to his wife, his best friend and his creative gift. Why? Outside of the cliche lure of Hollywood's big bucks, George Furth's brittle, bitchy book never offers a plausible clue...