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ORGAN GRINDER SWING (Verve), except for the title piece, has little of the excitement of Monster and is for fanciers of the Hammond organ only. Jimmy Smith's trio (Kenny Burrell on guitar, Grady Tate on drums) plays nine minutes of so-so blues, a bright and shiny Satin Doll, and a wheezing travesty of Greensleeves...
...ones and twos they came, until the galleries were filled with the festive rustling of satin and silk. A wave of perfume penetrated to the farthest corners of the House-but with none of the advertised effects on the male of the species. For despite earlier assurances that the members would be allowed to quit in time to take their wives to Lyndon Johnson's Salute to the 89th Congress, their host had other plans for the House. From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on the evening of the party came word that the Representatives should stay in session until they...
...humble aspirant to an old master's throne, Ormandy has all the moves of a maestro to the manner born. He receives visitors in his Bellevue-Stratford Hotel suite (where he has lived with his second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster...
...flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make a show, or a stroll...
...dresses, shoes and undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassière is for?" As for the dresses, including a $383 red satin inaugural-ball gown introduced into evidence, the defense solemnly reminded the jury: "Shirley Stratton was the First Lady of Illinois...