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June 4, 1938

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WORDS AND MUSIC--II

Margaret Case Harriman

PROFILE of Lorentz Hart and Richard Rodgers, songwriters. They have been collaborating for nineteen years, since Rodgers, then sixteen, met Hart who was …

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