Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Howard Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine...
Staford's Sociology Department Chairman Joseph Berger, called Mayer "one of the leading young figures in the field." The sociologist, he said, has interests in both quantitative and theory, specializing in topics like organization structure and socialization processes. Stanford "will make a major effort to keep him," he added...
William Manchester ¶A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ¶-Whose Little Boy Are You? Heywood Hale Broun
...either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien Louis B. Mayer régime costumery, particularly one black-and-white Theoni V. Aldredge outfit that makes her look like a Hollywood penguin...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...