Songwriter ("Slightly Sentimental", "Let's Love Again"), composer,
author and educator, educated at Townsend Harris Hall and UCLA (BA, MA,
Ph.D). He was assistant professor of English at the University of
California, then associate professor and vice-chancellor in 1959. He
earned two Guggenheim fellowships, and was a Fulbright lecturer at the
University of Copenhagen, and a lecturer at the Salzburg Seminary in
American Studies in 1953 and also at Nice in 1958. He joined ASCAP in
1941, and his chief musical collaborator was Milton Rosen. His other
popular-song compositions include "I Am, Are You?", "Sweet and Low",
"Poor Nell", "A Dream Ago", "Nice to Know You", "I'm Old Enough to
Dream" and "Never Again".
