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...librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...spent devotees of the social life have clambered between their matutinal sheets, the lithe young typical Harvard Senior will have sprang from his Ostermoor, dawned a Clupeco, and having finished the World's Work, will join the farces in front of Unworthy Hall at 8 o'clock. There will be a short cheer observed for the Freshman whose $5 cheque at the Picture was later honored by the Cambridge Truss Company. The long black line of brawlers will advance to U Four where Chidibidibee Osgood and Ceres Steel will lead conclusively the first two and the last three verses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIVILEGED LEISURE CLASS | 6/1/1911 | See Source »

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