WHAT MAN's wife Dorothy once bristled when she heard a remark that Jerome Kern had written "Ol' Man River." "Indeed not," she retorted. "Jerome Kern wrote 'dum, dum, dum-dum.' My husband wrote 'Ol' Man River'."
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (Wouldn't it be funny if that name wasn't right, and some dufus is laughing everytime someone just gets the whole name from Wikipedia?)