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Marilyn Maye, 36, is a Wichita girl who made her reputation in Kansas City, where she has been packing The Colony for seven years. A gifted musician, she can coo a dreamy The Lamp Is Low as well as belt out Bill Bailey or Cabaret with a rhythmic finesse that connoisseurs find rare in singers nowadays. There is virtually no style, in fact, that she does not command. With her husband's intricate piano work and the backing of drums and fender bass, her performance has put Kansas City back on the map for jazz lovers...
Died. J. Frank Duryea, 97, co-designer with his brother Charles of the U.S.'s first gasoline-powered automobile, who in 1893 contrived a horseless carriage powered by a single-cylinder engine hooked up to the wheels by a leather belt, bucked and bumped 200 ft. down the street in Springfield, Mass., before the contraption broke; of arteriosclerosis; in Old Saybrook, Conn...
Standing Chariot-Style. The attractions of snowmobiling are high mobility (up to 50 m.p.h. on the flat), low cost (from $695 to $1,975), and ease of operation. The vehicles start like an outboard motor, are tractioned by rear tanklike belt treads, and steered by handle bars attached to two front-running skis. On steep downhill runs, they give the driver all the thrills he can handle; yet, piloted sensibly, they are relatively safe. In a spill, the driver is usually thrown clear into soft snow, and the snowmobile stops as soon as his hands release the throttle...
Kessler, it might be noted, added to the wrestling match impression by duplicating the ineffectualness of the officials who scamper around the Arena Annex ring on Thursday nights. The TV screen showed Terrell pounding the champ below the belt, and there was Kessler on the blind side, running a second too late to a vantage point where he could see the foul...
Swanger accepted the government's $5000 increase by telephone yesterday, but he said the Harvard program will have to "tighten its belt," More books will have to be shared, fewer trips will be taken--a proposed summer excursion to Montreal has already been cancelled--and the students may undertake fund-raising operations like talent shows and dances...