Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Coast audiences and critics who have been listening to 22-year-old Pat Suzuki for the last two years like to argue whether she has the style of Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern, Judy Garland or Ethel Merman. The truth is that she sounds occasional echoes of all of them. But she also has a dead-sure sense of phrasing all her own and a warm-tinted, open voice which casts its own mellow glow over the familiar lyrics she handles...
Everything Pat knows of professional singing she learned from listening to records on a battered portable phonograph. The California-born daughter of a Japanese farmer (almonds, grapes and peaches), she passed the war years in a detention camp in Colorado, graduated from California's San Jose State College and lit out for New York and (she hoped) Europe before settling for a teaching career. In Manhattan her money dribbled away. To pay the rent Pat was willing to try anything, landed a walk-on spot in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon. Cast members heard...
...quick succession, Pat has made her U.S. and Canadian TV debuts, signed her first record contract (with Vik). "One thing I don't want to do in music," she says, "is to go in for the oh-how-sad-I-am-I've-lost-the-only-man-I've-ever-had, and I'm-covered-with-moss school of thing." She knows just how she wants to sound: "It's like nudes in art; you can have them Manet's way, in their purest form, or you can have them Petty style." Pat...
...busy patching up other people's novels, ghostwriting and being promotion manager for Foreign Affairs. Seen on a midtown Manhattan street, tall, lean, blue-eyed Tanner decked in a midnight-blue Homburg, with umbrella tightly furled, could still pass for a refugee from the British Foreign Office. Though Pat's grey-flecked brown beard predates Commander "Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their beards: "The beard flourishes...
That Dow-Jones Boy. Pat allows himself one eccentricity besides the beard. He collects clocks, has "20 or 30 of them," mostly ornate gilded continental models with trick features. Samples: a globe-shaped item with a set-in castle scene over which the sun and moon rise at appropriate times; a miniature tower clock in a living-room painting that goes off every 15 minutes ("You should be around at midnight. It's orgiastic...