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Many a stereo bug could recognize the sounds immediately-and name the man who was making them. At 29, Arthur Lyman and his group of Hawaiian musicians are staples of the pop-record market. One album alone, titled Taboo, has sold close to 2,000,000 copies, and Lyman fans buy each new effort (Yellow Bird, Hawaiian Sunset, Taboo Vol. 2) with the enthusiasm of rare-stamp collectors. Back home in Hawaii, Lyman's mistily exotic mood music has been copied with varying success by a dozen groups. It draws tourists by the gross to the Shell...
...Little to Drink. The group's repertory is varied and immense-300 songs ranging from Israeli folk music to rock 'n' roll. By the time Lyman has finished arranging them, however-building in parts for castanets, chimes, tambourines, cow bells and even the jawbone of an ass-they all take on the same exotic, Oriental flavor. To give listeners the impression that they are in the rain forests of Brazil, Lyman and his men cut loose at regular intervals with what they hope are authentic bird cries. At its best, the group has a delicate, haunting sound...
...Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records...
NATO's 15-nation Permanent Council last week unanimously approved General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, 62, as its next Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. It did so after Charles de Gaulle pointedly delayed his government's approval five days, long enough to necessitate a special meeting of the NATO Council. De Gaulle apparently felt slighted because Kennedy was reportedly using the NATO appointment as a convenient way of moving Lemnitzer, with whose performance as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs he had not been happy. Besides showing his usual touchiness, De Gaulle's little slap was a reminder...
Fitting Choice. Norstad's successor as Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe will be the Army's General Lyman (Lem) Lemnitzer, 62, since 1960 chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was a fitting choice: Lemnitzer was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty, later helped parcel out arms to U.S. Allies as first di rector of the Office of Military Assistance in 1949. Though France's crusty President Charles de Gaulle growled "Je ne le con-nais pas" when he heard of Lemnitzer's selection, there is little doubt that...