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...Manhattan's Blue Angel last week, the house lights dimmed and the M.C. announced the newest thing in the nightclub belt: a theoretical physicist who turns out tunes on the side. Tom Lehrer, tall, lean, 25, strode purposefully to the piano, peered into the crowd through horn-rimmed glasses, and launched into what Variety called "a comedy of terrors." He would, he said, sing an "ancient Irish ballad, written a few years ago." He turned to the keys, drummed out a melancholy accompaniment, and in a sardonic voice began to sing. Sample lyric...
...phrases on a scribble sheet. But he is master of his case. Lightly he skips from page 1,428 of the record to page 3, and back again, to make his points. His words, though spontaneous, are apt; his voice still sonorous, if no longer as powerful ("The horn you blow doesn't get any louder as you get older"); his argument confident without being arrogant. Other lawyers may try to put across a dozen ideas in a case. Davis prefers to narrow the issue to its lifeline: "Always go for the jugular vein...
...Otto Graham made a name for himself in the junior music circles of Waukegan, Ill., where his father was (and is) a high-school music director. In addition to piano and violin, which he still plays, Otto learned the oboe, English horn, French horn and cornet. Otto also had other talents which his father, an old semipro pitcher, approved and encouraged. He won high-school letters in football, basketball and baseball, found time to play tennis and golf and win awards in Junior Olympic track and field events around Chicago...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Cinemactress Gail (The Lawless) Russell, 29, recently named by Cinemactor John Wayne's wife Esperanza, now divorced, as John's impromptu hostess for most of one night, wheeled up behind two cops' prowl car and blasted away with her horn. Hauled in for a sobriety test, Gail, fetchingly decked out in dungarees, flunked, spent most of the night as an impromptu guest of the city jail...
...French Horn Jazz, Vol. I (John Graas Septet; Trend EP). The symphony orchestra's most recalcitrant wind instrument finds its way into these four cool originals; here, muted and mumbling, it fits in pretty well...