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Some people mumbled "Gilbert and Sullivan" two years ago when Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers announced that they were forming a new partnership. But if new D'Oyly Cartes are quietly waiting to be launched, they will have to wait a long time. Rodgers' and Lerner's first musical - / Picked a Daisy - was postponed indefinitely...
...show is about extrasensory perception, but the trouble is clear to any one with ordinary perception: Lerner has been dragging his feet. When he works, the poor man works hard, to be sure. He sometimes stays up all night to get a single line for a lyric. He has spent two weeks on one couplet. It can take him months to write the words to an entire song. Then he hands it to Rodgers-who demoralizingly creates a finished tune in 20 minutes...
...laundry keeps coming out grey," said mother Cheerlessly-Jerry Lerner, Park Forest...
...Astoria. He would not be 46 for six more days, but it was a good excuse to come to the aid of the Democratic Party's chronic deficit with an estimated $600,000. During the dinner, a smiling Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair Lady lyricist and a Kennedy schoolmate at Choate and Harvard, directed a show-biz crowd that included Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, and Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford through some tired song-and-dance routines. Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy Birthday"−and it was all, according...
...four years under his management-will be selling at a higher price. To top all this, the restless three last week were negotiating with Promoter Meshulam Riklis to take over his sprawling (assets: $66 million) but sorely troubled Rapid-American empire, which controls 1.500 Lerner, H. L. Green, National Shirt, McLellan and other stores; it also makes printing plates and plastic signs and sells citrus fruits. Chucking & Muscling. Muscat, Krock and Huffines got together in 1957 through a mutual interest in rehabilitating a sick New Jersey company called Reinsurance Investment Corp. With the help of their own private fortunes, they...