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Drawing on the album's conscientious liner notes, Down Beat explained that the late Pianist Hammer was a shy fellow from Glen Springs, Ala., who committed his art to posterity only once, at a recording session in Nashville, Tenn. in 1956. Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that...
Also, Julius L. Novick, of Adams House and New York City, English; John B. Radner, of Winthrop House and Evanston, III., English; Matthew M. Rechler, of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Bio-Chemistry; Edward G. Steinberg, of Dudley House and Mobile, Ala., Romance Languages; and Robert L. Sugar, of Lowell House and Beachwood, Ohio, Physics...
...When Major General John Medaris, head of the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Huntsville, Ala., last week announced his retirement, Spaceman von Braun and Army pressagents played it as a protest against the space mixup. But Medaris, 57, made it clear that he had decided to retire two months before to get a toe hold in private business or education before he reached the retirement...
...Point. In Mobile, Ala., after a rash of lawsuits against the city from women who claimed that they had tripped and injured themselves on city streets, the city commission introduced a bill to outlaw spike heels more than one inch high or less than one inch in diameter...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Palmer Gaillard, 103, oldest member of the American Bar Association, a practicing lawyer for 78 years; in Mobile, Ala...