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...clear Red sky a Soviet translator named Victor Louis dropped a casual line to Musicomedy Authors Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to inform them that an unauthorized version of their long-running My Fair Lady, its book translated by Louis, will be staged in two Russian cities next season. Despite the fact that they stand to collect no royalties on the Russian production, Louis brassily requested Lerner and Loewe to forward a complete orchestral score for the hit. So incensed that they could have danced all night with rage, the pair promptly appealed to the State Department, the Soviet...
...live by it. If we lived by it, Eddie and I would have been terribly unhappy through all this turmoil. But I can shamelessly say that we have been terribly happy. I am literally rising above it." Her words rang all the way to Manhattan, where Pundit Max Lerner wrote in the New York Post: "Where so many people have become desensitized in our world, I welcome this forthright celebration of the life of the senses...
...Kresge up 4% to $13.8 million, Kroger up 5% to a record $21.6 million. Retailers across the U.S. were setting an even faster pace in 1959. Compared with January 1958, last month's sales were up 7.2% for Lerner Stores, 7.8% for National Shirt Shops, 11.5% for S. H. Kress, 17% for Franklin Stores, 18.2% for Peoples Drug Stores...
...cigarettes, it sings feeling men's songs. The Rock 'n' Roll Romantic today beats out the worries of the age; he synthesizes the intellectual (Charlie Brown), the successful (Elvis Presley), and all other concerns into a libidinal lyric. One big bopper says more about America than Max Lerner; and the CRIMSON, never unpercipient of current social and intellectual trends presents its quasi-annual song round-up. Harvard if not singing should keep swinging...
Your Hit Parade (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A tribute to Tunesmiths Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and their Fair Lady...