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...Down In The Flood." Smither and background pianist Eric Kaz turn in a performance that out-stomps the high-spirited Dylan original. My favorites among Smither's songs include the title cut and "I Feel The Same," both of which are dominated by Smither's acoustic and John Bailey's electric guitars. Smither is about the only folk writer I've heard who writes about loneliness without ever reverting to romantic drivel or embarassing self-pity. One key to his success over a wide range of moods is a sense of humor that keeps him from taking his crises...
...customers asked for a song, you knew it or else," he recalls. After a stint (1944-47) with the infantry in Germany, Bennett studied drama and music at New York's American Theater Wing. In 1950 he got a one-week engagement warming up the crowd for Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village. When the week was over. Bailey told the manager: "Keep that boy on. I like the way he sings...
...sentenced to up to two years each in reform school for pulling a 25-year-old schoolteacher to the ground at a west London bus stop and kicking her until her face was covered with blood. "The girls are even tougher than the boys," said one judge at Old Bailey last week. "It was once assumed that if a man and a woman committed a crime, the woman was under the domination of the man. I think that's now rubbish from what I've seen...
Fenton has brought in F. Lee Bailey, the celebrated criminal lawyer and a longtime friend of Hefner's, to serve as the showcase publisher of Gallery. Cracks Bailey in Gallery's first issue: "You may expect a Hefty supply of dressed and undressed ladies in our pages which we intend to be beautiful, sensual and stimulating." He disclaims any "intent to enter the current publishing contest to see who can print the most daring display of pubic hair...
...total was Gallery's copying of Playboy in its first issue that Hefner's lawyers started inspecting it for possible copyright infringement, and Bailey reportedly rebuked Spurlock for overdoing the imitation. Gallery's next issue is to be partly redesigned, but Fenton is unworried. "All magazines," he says blandly, "have similarities...