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...educated modern African of Kwamina's sort sometimes calls himself a Bintu, meaning "been to" Oxford or Cambridge. Broadway-born and bred, Kwamina has been to the latest headlines, but it never gets to the heart, in or out of Africa...
...chansons are about ordinary people who come to sad ends rather than bad ends. In Un Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares...
Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital...
Died. Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 73-benign. German-bred Harvard classicist whose monumental studies of Aristotle and the ideals of ancient Greek culture themselves became classics: of injuries suffered in a fall: in Boston...
...Soos Creek, well south of Seattle. He hatched the eggs in tanks on the campus and nursed the infant salmon until they grew into fingerlings. Then he washed them down a sluice into Lake Union, and they swam out into the Pacific. After four years, the college-bred salmon returned to the campus full grown, like old grads gathering for a class reunion...