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...unfair that the south of the world is never treated to a scene so grand and so breathtaking as last month's snowstorm. After the torm, I sat down at my desk and started to write a letter describing it to my younger brother in Madras...
Thursday, August 15 The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Guests include Mel Tormé, Frances Faye and Eduardo Sasson. Host is Vic Damone. Color. The World of Maurice Chevalier (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Television portrait of the ageless entertainer...
Perhaps because of his weak chin, perhaps because he is unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...Good Way. Trading on a second-growth tonsil that gives his voice a pleasantly fuzzy purr, Tormé tried hard to be a balladeer. But his syrupy approach to hits like Blue Moon won him the unfortunate nickname "The Velvet Fog," typecast him as a limp crooner, and tempted tricksters to heckle him by slipping the irresistible r into "Fog." "Life was nothing but traveling," he says. "I was very unhappy with my recording career. Everywhere people would give me the 'so-you're-the-cocky-little-kid' bit." Mel's obstinacy never withered...