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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...
Benson's words and the Farm Bureau's action indicated that the Administration's new farm program will lean toward "variable" supports and the law of supply and demand...
...Though Cousy (rhymes with woozy) stands a slender 6 ft. 1 in., he is a small man among the outsize players of professional basketball. Cousy makes up for his lack of size with cat-quick reflexes and spur-of-the-moment shots that are almost impossible to defend against. Lean and loose, he goes through muscular gyrations that would awe a contortionist. He is currently among the N.B.A.'s top scorers, the league leader in assists, and an agile defender against men half a foot taller...
Already there are 2,208 factories employing more than 20 men each, and another 100,000 workers are estimated to be employed in thousands of tiny factories in incredibly cramped lofts and lean-tos in back alleys. Since 1948 alone, 13 cotton-spinning mills with 209,000 spindles have been established, and 43,000 more spindles will be added this winter. Other factories, which pay workers as little as 50? a day, make everything from floridly painted aluminum spittoons for African natives to ivory chessmen and bamboo furniture for American tourists. More than 400 companies with 80 million Hong Kong...
...which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping crevasses whose sinister gullets lead down into a blue-green shade; the ominous huddle of the Everest massif, where three of the world's greatest peaks (Everest. Lhotse and Nuptse) lean threatfully together like three witches...