Word: tangoing
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...Harvard graduate, Composer Anderson started out with more classical ambitions, built his reputation as a "Tin Pan longhair" only after a nine-year stretch writing arrangements for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He turns out about three of his capsule compositions each year, numbers such as Blue Tango, Trumpeter's Lullaby, Sand Paper Ballet. (He also wrote the music for one Broadway musical-Goldilocks.) His method of composition is as surprising as his success: "There's nothing like getting a good title," says he, "and working backwards...
...over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...
Died. Al Hoffman, 57, top Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader ("I was the world's worst drummer"), who minted-with various collaborators-Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...London School of Economics in 1915-18 -long before that institution went for Keynes and Laski. With a somewhat jaundiced eye a contemporary remembers him there at 20 as "a student of economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making...
whips, dear. You can raise welts Like nobody else As we dance the masochism tango...