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Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...humor (see SHOW BUSINESS). Sitting with her was former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who gallantly kept her engrossed during the jabs at the President. Said one observer: "Without him, she wouldn't have made it." As it was, she gamely held on to the end, until Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa said sympathetically: "Your father still has one friend." Tears began to fill her eyes as she quietly left...
...real scoop when she disclosed, almost three weeks later, that the Johnsons had attended a dinner at the Averell Harrimans'-and that every-one had had a fine time. The Johnsons' place cards had been filled in with the names of the Nicaraguan ambassador, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, and his wife, so that no one would know the President was coming until he arrived...
JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally-his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra...
...future diplomats would be expected to pay their traffic fines. In the first ten days, 205 cars with DPL plates were ticketed, and 46 fines were actually paid. But by then diplomatic indignation was running so high that the dean of the diplomatic corps, Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, waited on Dean Rusk in person with a protest. Sheepishly the State Department backed up. The police department sent out a directive to be "diplomatic to the diplomats" once again. Only if there was a blatant violation or if the diplomat was not on official business would summonses still...