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| | Yip Harburg - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | After graduating university, Harburg spent three years in Uruguay to avoid involvement in WWI, which he opposed as a committed socialist. |
 | | Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Somewhere Over the Rainbow. |
 | | During the McCarthy era, from about 1951 to 1962, Yip Harburg was a victim of the Hollywood fllist when movie studio bosses fllisted industry people for their left-wing political activity. |
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