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...ALMENA LOMAX Los Angeles
Married. Alan Lomax, 46, world-traveling expert on folk music; and Antoinette Marchand, 26, recent University of Buffalo graduate student; both for the second time; in Wellfleet, Mass...
Jerome Bert Wiesner, 45, Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Articulate, pipe-smoking Jerry Wiesner has tramped through North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory...
Opening the program with Everybody Loves Saturday Night, Lomax rambled through a couple of Great Lakes ballads, and Range of the Buffalo, displaying the charm which contributed to his success as a folksong collector for the Library of Congress...
...Lomax returned to lead the audience in Almost Done, a song he collected years ago from penitentiaries, when the wardens permitted him to visit with the prisoners and swap songs and stories. Terry and McGee rocked through I Don't Want No Cornbread and Molasses, straight out of a southern jail, and marched out with When the Saints Go Marching...