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RONALD L. CAHN Bloomington...
...John H. Fischer, president of Columbia University's Teachers College; Kenneth Clark, City College psychology professor and Negro leader; Rabbi Judah Cahn of the Metropolitan Synagogue...
Divorced. Sammy Cahn, 50, kingpin Hollywood lyricist, author of more than a thousand songs (Three Coins in the Fountain, Love and Marriage), who last week picked up his fourth Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible, sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition; by Gloria Delson Cahn, 37, onetime Goldwyn girl; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he left her alone at parties); after 18 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...script that runs more to whimsy than to wit, the inspector is given most of the good lines. "A Boche!" he bellows indignantly when Sellers, setting a trap for the I.P.O. Gang, suggests a German safecracker for a ?250,000 bank robbery. "See 'ere cahn't we give this job to a British lad?" But Sneaky Pete has the sneakiest line in the show. Preoccupied with his problems, he waffles into his flat one evening and whoops absentmindedly for his mistress...
...what is his music? It must be folk-oriented at least for he sings blues, ballads, Woodie Guthrie songs, flamenco and calypso. But Cahn really doesn't sing folk songs, and he doesn't really sing blues. In the true jazz sense, Cahn's music has become an extension of his own personality and his own unique approach to life, he must be classed as more of a jazz musician than a folk musician. Cahn sings everything with a German-Jewish accent which alienates many purists. But those who judge him in comparison with Eric Von Schmidt, Jack Elliott...