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While working on a show, he keeps his music and lyrics in neat sets of looseleaf notebooks and Manila folders, and he follows a chart of the book's plot for spotting his songs. The only top-ranking Broadway composer besides Irving Berlin who writes his own lyrics, he usually begins with a song title to fit the plot situation, then finds his melody, and later fits the words to it. He begins with the last line and works backward. Close at hand is an exhaustive library of rhyming and foreign dictionaries (he speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian...
...start of the season, every player on the Browns is handed a looseleaf notebook with his name lettered on it in gold. Coach Brown expects his players to take down everything he says in "skull practice." He inspects the notebooks, and even insists that they be neat...
...explanation of 1918's new tax regulations; it was hardly out when the regulations were changed. The professors then hit upon the idea which now accounts for more than half their annual business: supplying businessmen with up-to-the-minute information on taxation, labor laws, etc., in looseleaf form. This also increased sale of their textbooks, until they began to sell more books direct to businessmen and colleges than any other U.S. publisher...
...conference opened, Harry Truman stood up before the delegates, a grave, grey man in a dark blue suit, and read gravely and greyly from his black looseleaf notebook: "[The eyes of the American people] are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. "Our country is worried about our industrial relations. It has a right to be. That worry is reflected in the halls of the Congress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You have it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme...
...blue-bound, looseleaf "Memo for Company Instruction," the German High Command announced that every German family must average four children. Reason: "Every stout boy born in 1943 can become a brave soldier...