In 1942, Oscar Hammerstein II stood on the porch of his farmhouse in Doylestown, Pa., looking at a herd of cows on the side of a hill. He was working on a new show with Richard Rodgers about the American frontier when a phrase occurred to him: "The cows on the hill/Are as still as...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28AM on May 18, 2016