LERNER AND LOEWE . Famed lyricist-composer team who created some of Broadway’s most popular musicals; Alan Jay Lerner, b. New York, New York, ; d. New York, New York, ; Frederick Loewe, b. Berlin, Germany, ; d. Palm Springs, California, .
Alan Jay Lerner was born in New York, the scion of a family with a fortune built on the Lerner Shops chain of women’s clothing stores. Lerner was sent to the...