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...that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when Composers Stephen Sondheim and Milton Babbitt have written appreciations of his work), Kern's revolution has continued unsilenced. It should last for another hundred years, and maybe for as long as anyone can carry a tune...
DIED. Selma Diamond, 64, raspy-voiced comic actress and comedy writer who played the world-weary, chain-smoking bailiff on TV's Night Court; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Diamond was a top writer for Perry Como, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and a playfully sardonic TV talk-show guest. Her films include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), My Favorite Year (1982), Twilight Zone -- The Movie...
...some states, police routinely set up "sobriety checkpoints," stopping cars to check for drunk drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with a lot of fish and very few fishermen...
...DIED. Milton Eisenhower, 85, educator, diplomat and valued adviser to six Pres- idents, including his brother Dwight; in Baltimore. The youngest of seven brothers, Milton worked for the Agriculture Department through the Depression years; during World War II he was a top Roosevelt troubleshooter for refugee and relief problems in North Africa, before leaving Government in 1943. He then held three college presidencies: at his alma mater, Kansas State, until 1950; at Pennsylvania State (1950-56); and at Johns Hopkins (1956-67 and 1971-72). The genial, judicious administrator also held several part-time Government posts, among them Special Ambassador...
Like eighteenth century English history, the literature of the century has also been the victim of inattention. Pope and Johnson are undeniable presences, but others are sometimes lost in between the glitter of the Elizabethans and Milton and the later Romantics and Victorians. Yet there were many intelligent literary minds at this time, and they produced writing that is well worth our attention...