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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals can be sure of work. Even Frank Sinatra Jr. sits in, tussling with a sappy role as Davis' sidekick, and Peter Lawford is improbably cast as "Manny...
...Piano Sport (Atheneum) by Don Asher, 40, might be called a bop novel. Written by a man who plays funky piano at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, the book tells a sprightly story about a cat who plays piano somewhere else in town. Call the Keeper (Viking) by Nat Hentoff, 41, a man-about-Manhattan who writes voluminously about jazz, race and Greenwich Village, is an ingenious pop thriller about jazz, race and Greenwich Village. The main menace is a Negro intellectual who hangs out with jazzbos and cuts up his victim on Bleecker Street...
...former Nat Sci 5 student applauded Hopkins as being "the only guy in the University who could make the development of a chicken egg really mean something...
Hopkins, a specialist in molecular biology, became an assistant professor in 1962. Besides teaching Nat Sci 5 he has given lectures in Nat Sci 6, and several upper-level Biology courses...
...discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...