Word: harbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Otto Harbach, 89, courtly dean of U.S. librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund...
...many collaborators, and from them learned his craft. Otto Harbach, with whom Hammerstein worked...