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...Bobbi Humphrey, a jazz flautist and soloist who made her name playing with Byrd (imagine--now he's the bird) is playing with the ubiquitous Webster Lewis at the Berklee Performance Center this Sunday. Shows are at 7 and 10 p.m. I managed to miss Webster Lewis at both the Western Front and Symphony Hall. Looks like I'll dodge him successfully for a third time...
Later in the morning, the gleaming white Inaugural platform in front of the Capitol was crowded with family members, Supreme Court Justices and congressional leaders. Television microphones picked up some of the dignitaries' chitchat about what they had done to ward off the cold. Cracked Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I've got my Minnesota thermal underwear...
Richard Nixon's 1973 spectacular. There were also a couple of Kennedys around (Ethel at a New York State party, on the arm of Governor Hugh Carey, Teddy at a dinner to honor Hubert Humphrey at the Mayflower Hotel). But considering that this was a Democratic Inaugural, the members of that sizable clan seemed most notable for their absence throughout the week. Most in evidence were Hollywood stars, athletes, musicians-and Georgians...
Stoppard laces the proceedings with racy puns, malapropisms and bureaucratese. He scales the evening's comic peak with the interpolated segment called New-Found-Land. Two Foreign Service officers enter the temporarily deserted committee room to discuss an American's application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains...
Surprisingly, Byrd received strong support in his campaign for the post not only from conservative Southern Democrats, but from liberals who might more naturally have been expected to support Byrd's challenger, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). In fact, so widespread was the liberal defection to Byrd that Humphrey, recognizing he had no chance of winning, withdrew. Two days later, however, Humphrey received a consolation prize--he was made deputy president pro tem of the Senate, garnering a $7500 pay increase, a limousine, a larger office, and no new formal responsibilities...