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...show, assembled by that preeminent scholar of Broadway music, Robert Kimball, had some nice arcana, like Mercer's rejected lyric for a Harold Arlen tune that, thanks to Ira Gershwin, became "The Man That Got Away." And at the end, one of Mercer's most important interpreters came on stage: Margaret Whiting, still a pistol at 81. The night I attended, she went dry on some lyrics to "One for My Baby," then won the audience back by muttering, in her best saloon-chanteuse alto, "Of all the songs to blow, it had to be this...
...Just as buoyant is the score. How could it not be, with Broadway's premier songwriting siblings near the top of their form? The title tune got to #8 on the hit parade, and two others, "Who Cares?" and "Love Is Sweeping the Country," still put a 2/4 spring in the step of many a geriatric. But the score was no succession of stand-alone ballads and dance tunes. Ira referred to the show as an operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters...
...baseball tournament. In that game, an 8-5 Havard win, freshman lefthander Hampton Foushee pitched four innings of one-run ball in his first collegiate start. Harvard head coach Joe Walsh will likely use a combination of pitchers today, with the effect of using the occasion as a midweek tune-up against live hitting. No. 1 starter Shawn Haviland, named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week for the second straight week yesterday, will likely make an appearance. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Crimson placed fourth out of six teams with a score of 93 points. Brown, MIT and BC took the top three slots with 69, 90, and 93 points, respectively,. Dartmouth and Mass. Maritime Academy rounded out the top six. Although not a qualifying regatta, it provided an important tune-up for Harvard as it readies for Nationals. As it was for those at the NEISA event, getting time away from the calm Charles was an important test for Harvard. “Sailing at MIT was good practice for everyone,” senior Jess Baker said...
When his melodic rendition of "Eliot House Sucks" elicited negative reactions from some in the crowd, Folds switched the tune and sang instead, "Eliot House is not so bad, it’s really okay....Don’t make fun of it." Folds also encouraged the audience to chime in during some songs. The artist even climbed onto the grand piano and conducted a crowd of harmonizing undergraduates during one tune...