Word: lyricist
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...Governor Christian A. Herter, '15, who was recently appointed Assistant Secretary of State, was not only a lyricist in his undergraduate days at the College. Entering college as a young, tall and frail youth, he did not participate in the major sports of the day although many of his friends remember him as "a damn good tennis player...
...from UNICEF. The show was filmed by two CBS-TV camera crews over a seven-week tour of three continents and brilliantly edited (from 240,000 ft. to 10,000 ft.) by See It Now Producers Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly, and by Kaye and his wife, Lyricist Sylvia Fine...
Died. Janet Allen Walker, 70, onetime vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach...
Died. Albert Von Tilzer, 78 (born Gumm), longtime artisan of Tin Pan Alley, who wrote (1908) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Lyricist Jack Norworth), reputedly did not see a baseball game until 20 years later, also turned out Heart of My Heart, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo; in Los Angeles...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...