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...four years with Johnson, Lloyd became a familiar of Washington's social circuit. When Johnson moved up to the vice-presidency in 1961, Lloyd, now 36, moved out to become a vice president in a Los Angeles insurance company. He settled his family in Bel Air and prospered. Weekends there was touch football with neighbors like the Pat Boones. Ann, 31, starred with Burt Lancaster in a P.T.A. production of The Shoemaker and the Elves, picked up fashion pointers from Paramount Studio Costume Chief Edith Head...
...conducted the Boston production, and Horne's spouse Henry Lewis, who as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the leading Negro conductor in the U.S., put their heads together to compose some additional vocal scrimshaw of their own. The result was a stunning display of bel canto acrobatics of a kind rarely heard...
...DOWN STAIRCASE by Bel Kaufman. 340 pages. Prentice-Hall...
...only in its paperwork. The guidance counselor records students' negative motivations; the nurse, their positive Wassermanns. But the faculty's interest is , more clerical than clinical, and even dropouts are a problem more of tabulation than of salvation. After 15 years of teaching in schools like Coolidge, Bel Kaufman, a granddaughter of Yiddish Author Sholom Aleichem, in 1962 published a satirical anthology (From a Teacher's Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length. But her characters-including the inevitable Fat Girl and the Fatuous Principal...
...BEL CANTO (2 LPs; London). A festive addition to the current revival of "beautiful singing," these 23 arias, duets and trios are by familiar composers (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...