The composer and the plugger of the nation's biggest song hit met last fortnight for the first time. The song: As Time Goes By ("A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo...
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