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...HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...
...festival, compliments of Impresario Joe Napoli, who founded the event as repayment for the kindness shown to him by the villagers when he was a G.I. fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. Staged in the village meadow, the program will feature artists from eight countries, including the Woody Herman Band, Saxophonist John Coltrane, the Prague Dixieland Band, Germany's Woodhouse Stompers and Blues Singer Tany Golon from Katanga...
...bership of any individual to 15 company boards, ostensibly to keep him from being spread so thin that he cannot carry out his responsibilities to stock holders. The provision has already been dubbed "Lex Abs" by the German busi ness community. Reason: It most severely restricts Deutsche Bank Chairman Herman J. Abs, who holds lucrative memberships on the boards of more than 20 of Germany's leading companies...
This sort of sentiment has little in common with that of such other Southern Senators as Mississippi's Jim Eastland, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, or even Georgia's Richard Russell, whose sometimes courtly, sometimes acid-tongued combativeness has been badly missed by the Senate's Southerners in their fight against the voting rights bill. Russell has been out for almost four months with emphysema, a lung ailment, but last week he announced that he felt fit enough to run for a seventh term next year...
Also Dropouts. Last week the man of the moment was Herman, 16, of Herman's Hermits. An engaging high school dropout who looks like a toy sheep dog, Herman (real name: Peter Noone) smiles a lot, claps his hands over his head, and sticks his finger in his mouth when he sings. His Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose...