[on Oscar Hammerstin II's public support for him, an uncooperative witness before the House Un-Anerican Activities Committee in 1952] Oscar inscribed my copy of 'South Pacific', 'For Hy. And why not? Oscar'. Every once in a while I read his lyric, 'You've Got to Be Taught to Hate'. The man who wrote that was my friend. I liked the world a lot better when he lived in it.
