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...sprawling garden suite at Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel one evening last week, Composer Fritz Loewe rippled at the piano while a companion paced and hummed. This was not Lerner and Loewe at work, but Loewe enjoying himself and TIME Senior Editor Henry Grunwald mixing work with some nostalgia. The Loewe-Grunwald repertoire: songs from Countess-Maritza and The Smiling Husband by the late Austrian Librettist, Alfred Grunwald, whom Composer Loewe knew back in Vienna more than 30 years ago, and who was Editor Grunwald's father. To his astonishment, Grunwald found that Loewe remembered more...
...impromptu performance at the Ritz-Carlton was part of five week's preparation for this week's cover story on Loewe and his lyricist partner, Alan Jay Lerner. The process began when Grunwald and Show Business Writer John McPhee watched the new Lerner-Loewe show, Camelot, on its second night-in Toronto. Soon afterward, Researcher Joyce Haber was assigned to the story, spent 14 days in Toronto and Boston interviewing the mercurial Loewe and getting back-ground information from others in the cast (plus a miserable cold, perhaps inherited from Star Richard Burton). Once, while Researcher Haber...
...lyric beat, TIME Toronto Bureau Chief Kenneth Froslid, concentrating on Alan Lerner, attended 13 performances, had to explain to autograph seekers that he was not Roddy McDowall. His biggest worry came when his subject was rushed to Toronto's Wellesley Hospital with a bleeding ulcer, but the physician did grudgingly allow three visitors: Lerner's wife, his collaborator and Fros-lid. When the lyricist returned twelve days later, Froslid was alongside-car-rying the Thermos bottle full of milk. By the time Froslid had completed his comprehensive interview, Lerner quipped, "Now that you are gone...
...story's stage, TIME correspondents in Vienna, Bonn, Hollywood, Washington, London, New York, Paris and Chicago were digging at other sources. Among them: John F. Kennedy, who took time from a crushing campaign schedule to tell Washington Correspondent Hugh Sidey about his school and college days with Classmate Lerner...
...York is a community of minorities. Southern anti-Catholic propaganda has angered and dismayed all minority elements in the city. Writing in the New York Post last Friday, Max Lerner seemed to sum up the sentiment of many New Yorkers on the religious question: "If the idea of equal access receives a set-back in 1960 for Kennedy as a Catholic, it will also be a setback for every minority group...