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...keyboard with a fanciful right hand and a strong and steady bass line. In improvisation, his imagination is rich to the point of bursting, and he punctuates his own ideas with ironic mockeries of the pianists he has learned something from-Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum...
Redcliffe won five out of five tennis matches against Mount Holyoke yesterday afternoon. Deming Pratt '65, Barbara Mallinckrodt '66, and Adele Smith '63 swept the three singles matches. The winning doubles combinations were Lally Graham '65 and Adele Smith '63; and Erica Culter '62 and Pat Tatum...
...piano so well that almost no one else around can touch him. "Some day," he says, mustering up another resolution, "I'd like to do a little writing-I think I could, maybe. And I'd like to play well enough to do a single like Art Tatum. I'm just going to take the time and do that...
...piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always subject to change. Sometimes Jackson opens with eloquent slowness, then double-times the theme with marvelous results. Or he may start with a rocking jazz attack and shift to concert-style piano...
Joshua Lederberg, 35, is a balding biologist?and a genius. At 21, the studious son of a New Jersey rabbi, he was already making significant contributions to genetics. Working with his teacher, Edward Tatum, at Yale, he demonstrated that bacteria have a sex life of sorts. At 27, in collaboration with one of his own students at the University of Wisconsin, Lederberg discovered that bacteria infected with certain viruses may suffer hereditary changes. His work on this process, known as transduction, won him a Nobel Prize. Now, at Stanford's School of Medicine, Lederberg's latest cause for excitement...