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...Cy Walter, at Manhattan's Drake Room, who has patrolled the bar beat for 30 years, is generally considered the dean of cocktail pianists. A sometime composer, he plays novel and harmonically inventive arrangements, numbers among his devotees such celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living...
...last five years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, mostly on the strength of a smashing fastball and a jug-handle curve, Lefthander Koufax has won 111 games, lost only 34, pitched four no-hitters, and struck out an incredible 1,444 batters. He has won the Cy Young Award for baseball's top pitcher three times, and he was the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1963. But Sandy has arthritis in his pitching arm. He missed half of the 1962 and 1964 seasons, took ice-cube-and-hot-water treatments before every pitching turn last year...
SWEET CHARITY (Columbia). Cy Coleman's score and Dorothy Fields's lyrics are spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...
Times editorialists have long argued against a major U.S. commitment in Viet Nam.* The general Times approach comes under the guidance of Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, the publisher, who is Cy's first cousin, and John B. Oakes, editor of the editorial page, who is also a member of the Times family hierarchy. It is no secret that the Times editorial line on Viet Nam does not meet with universal approval among Timesmen, and the best public view of the continuing debate is Cy Sulzberger's consistent disagreement with his paper...
...other matches, Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne fell prey to hard-hitting Ted Rogers, 3-0; Harvey Slono downed Harvard's Todd Wilkinson, 3-1; and Cy Burbos defeated junior Craig Stapleton, 3-0, in the final match...