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...Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World on a String and III Wind. A retiring man who liked to jot down musical ideas while walking the dog or riding in a car, he worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable Broadway and Hollywood musicals to become repertoire standards for gifted interpreters like Frank Sinatra...
...starred on Perry Como's 1960s TV show. In his parents' Manhattan apartment, young Bill mingled with composers like Charles Strouse, who wrote the musical Bye Bye Birdie, and lyricists like Alan and Marilyn Bergman (The Way We Were) and the one he called "Uncle Yip," E.Y. Harburg (Somewhere Over the Rainbow, April in Paris...
...Berlin could twist his lyrics to make fun of himself and others. During the Vietnam War, the Republican composer wrote a new version of his anthem to tweak his left-wing friend, the lyricist E.Y. Harburg: "God bless America,/Land I enjoy,/ No discussions with Russians/ Till they stop sending arms to Hanoi." He also knew that, at the right moment, patriotism could sell songs...
...they could have joined a cell there; young Arab students would not stand out in the city of 1.7 million people, 16% of them foreigners. The Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where at least three of the plotters studied, has 900 foreign students, 20% of the total...
...autumn 1992, Atta enrolled at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, in a sleepy corner of northern Germany. He hoped to earn a degree in urban planning and then return to Egypt. In 1993, he befriended fellow student Volker Hauth, and the two often traveled and studied together in the next few years. Hauth liked Atta but sensed a rigidity in his friend. "I knew Mohamed as a guy searching for justice," Hauth told the Los Angeles Times. "He felt offended by this broad wrong direction the world was taking...