Frank Loesser began collaborating with him in the 1940s. Their Broadway alliance resulted in Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. (In what is now part of show-business lore, Frank’s first wife, the temperamental Lynn Garland, was referred to as “the evil of the two Loessers,” a play on “the lesser of two evils.” Apparently, Lynn once asked someone, “Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?” The immediate rejoinder was “It saves time.”)
