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DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, record producer and founder of Commodore Records, the first independent jazz label; in New York City. Gabler ran the Commodore Music Shop, widely celebrated as New York City's most comprehensive jazz record store and a hangout for fans and musicians. In the 1930s Gabler began recording such artists as Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee and paired Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald for the first time on vinyl. In 1954 Gabler produced that seminal rock-'n'-roll tune, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock...
...libel case. DIED. INDRO MONTANELLI, 92, veteran right-wing Italian journalist and former Fascist renowned for his controversial views; in Milan. In 1943 he was jailed by the Fascists and narrowly escaped execution for criticizing the regime in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, music producer who founded Commodore Records, the first U.S. independent jazz label; in New York City. He worked with jazz greats Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, American author hailed as a master of the short story; in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty's incisive tales, inspired by her observations...
...noted the work of Mel and Norma Gabler, self-anointed textbook watchdogs who compile lists of errors [EDUCATION, Feb. 12]. It would be nice if the Gablers kept their amending of school texts to grammatical mistakes. They are well known, however, for being extreme right-wing Christians who censor books freely if they stray from the Gablers' ultra-right-wing Christian agenda. These people are no better than German censors who burned books that departed from their ideology. MONTINO BOURBON DEL MONTE Santa Barbara, Calif...
...times depth--and never mind height? It was merely the latest illumination of textbook bungling. In 1999 the mathematicians enlisted to review math books submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed textbook watchdogs of Longview, Texas, have been compiling detailed lists of textbook errors since 1961; their most recent scroll of shame is 54 ft. long...
...times depth--and never mind height? It was merely the latest illumination of textbook bungling. In 1999 the mathematicians enlisted to review math books submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed textbook watchdogs of Longview, Texas, have been compiling detailed lists of textbook errors since 1961; their most recent scroll of shame is 54 ft. long...