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...filled and torrid. Off went the judge's coat. Off went the lawyers' coats. On stayed the clothes of the shapely plaintiff, Actress June Havoc, 41, and for a change, those of a key witness, her stripping sister Gypsy Rose Lee, 45, demure in a blue polka-dot dress. Cool and calm, June and Gypsy waited for the hearing to begin on June's complaint that she had been bilked in a real estate deal. But the smog won out, and the court was recessed. "In this kind of weather," said Gypsy, surveying the shirtsleeved crowd...
...eyes belong to a short, unshaven, portly young man with a Saragossa shock of black hair, a pair of plaid suspenders, a polka-dot bow tie, and the look of John L. Lewis with a beer bottle benignancy. His shoe-soles are worn to a sharp angle and he occasionally scratches...
...Lion Roars (Willie "The Lion" Smith; Dot). In an interview with Critic Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...eyes belong to a short, unshaven, portly young man with a Saragossa shock of black hair, a pair of plaid suspenders, a polka-dot bow tie, and the look of John L. Lewis with a beer bottle benignancy. His shoe-soles are worn to a sharp angle and he occasionally scratches...
...thing a pressagent cannot provide is a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia University. This week Columbia's School of General Studies gave one to Pat Boone, boy singer (at 24, a whopping 20 million records claimed for him by Dot Records). Bland, brown-haired Pat has confounded the swamp dwellers of the music world because he leads a blameless home life, and he has delighted parents of teen-agers because, although he sometimes sings rock 'n' roll, he sings it in a damply pleasant voice and does not keep time with pelvic spasms...