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Died. Harpo Marx, 75, wackiest and most wonderful of the four Marx Brothers, a master of madhouse pantomime in battered plug hat and shocking pink wig, whose endless trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also...
MAHLER: SONGS FROM DBS KNABEN WUNDERHORN (Vanguard). In the 1890s, Mahler was so drawn to the German folk poems in the old anthology called The Youth's Magic Horn that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto...
HONEY IN THE HORN (RCA Victor). Trumpeter Al Hirt piped such a jolly rendition of Java that he's had nothing but good news ever since. Honey, with Java in it, remains in perpetual motion in the record shops, and now two more bestselling collections have flowed from Hirt's horn of plenty: Cotton Candy and Sugar Lips...
Lyndon was unmistakably Lyndon, right down to the bifurcated chin. Barry was incontrovertibly Barry-box jaw, brow wrinkles, horn rims and all. Few U.S. cartoonists have so deftly distilled the spirit of these two men as Australia's Patrick Bruce Oliphant, 29, a recent arrival who has not yet set eyes on either Johnson or Goldwater and who took over the editorial cartoonist's drawing board at the Denver Post only last month...
...being Germany, there is a hierarchy of cars, so that a Volkswagen has the right to pass a trifling Goggomobil but should never challenge a stately Mercedes. Furthermore, Germans like to play cop to their fellow drivers. Discipline can be instilled, for instance, by an "educational honk" of the horn, and if that is not enough, by a Deutscher Gruss, or German greeting, in which the forehead is tapped with the right index finger, suggesting mental derangement in the other fellow...