Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a little Hebe who was brought up in the gutters of Brooklyn," Millionaire Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 66, likes to say in moments of wry self-depreciation. But every inch that the 5-ft. 4-in. dynamo lacks in physical stature, he has more than made up for in wealth: his fortune, based on Canadian uranium, has grown to upwards of $100 million. Nor is there any gainsaying his voracious appetite for art. "I buy art almost every day," he says. "If I can't decide which of an artist's work, I buy them...
...January 1964, Songwriter Jerry Herman turned out the title tune for the show Hello, Dolly! In the 27 months since, the song has sold more than 500,000 copies of sheet music and more than 3,000,000 recordings by 200 different performers, and has been played on the air hundreds of thousands of times. It goes like this (in B-flat...
...resolve the question of the four-bar coincidence, David's publishers sued Herman for copyright infringement, asking for all of Herman's "gains, profits and advantages," as well as damages. Dolly's Herman was indignant. "I was stunned," he says, "when this man claimed that a few notes in my song were similar to his song." Sunflower's David persisted. The case never got to court. As often happens in such situations, the litigants tried to iron things out without publicity. Nevertheless, reported Variety last week, in spite of flat denials and "no comments" from...
...world who would ever conquer Broadway. Shy and alarmingly thin, he had a bleeding ulcer and shed "a faint greenish glow." But he was shrewd, and he decided to case the joint before he tried to take it over. One day he called on Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and invested $5,000 in The Male Animal. Merrick made $18,000 on the deal, and by watching rehearsals and eavesdropping on conferences he also accumulated valuable experience. Six years later, after co-producing two turkeys (The Willow and I, Bright Boy), he signed on as Shumlin's general manager...
Next came the "drag." Flooring their buggies from a standstill, the drivers made their huge tires bite into the sand like shoveling Seabees, then roared down the ⅛-mile course at speeds that approached 100 m.p.h. Blue ribbon for the top class in both events went to Herman Booy, a 29-year-old rosebush grower from San Jacinto, who won by going to great lengths. Instead of the usual 96-in. chassis, he struck a new-and better-balance by lengthening it an extra...