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...famed vaudeville theater in a rowdy session with Count Basic's band, a couple of tap dancers, some comedy and a glimpse of the famed amateur show that gave Ella Fitzgerald her start. The recorded show uncovers its own discovery, a bouncy blues singer named Doreen Vaughan. The audience goes wild...
Stepping into one of the hottest spots in Washington is Eger (pronounced Eager) Vaughan Murphree, 57, an industrial research expert with little specific knowledge of missiles but an impressive record for getting results in engineering projects. No stranger to atomic weapons, Murphree was a World War II member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World...
Coach Dick Vaughan will probably start a line made up of Captain George Scragg, John Butsch, and sophomore Harry Rulon-Miller. The starting defense pair is Hugh Watts and Matt Plum, and the goalie will be junior Dave Robinson...
...operatic spoof called Apollo and Persephone, staged by the adventurous After Dinner Opera Company. Gayest of the week's premieres, it was written and composed by 40-year-old English Composer Gerald Cockshott (pronounced kosher), who originally dreamed up his libretto for his mentor, Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but liked it so much that he set it to music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked...
Other versions are even farther away from the original. Les Paul (Capitol) gives it a zithery sound, Tito Puente (Victor) a Latin beat, and Billy Vaughan (Dot) features an off-key whistler. But most versions retain the original's deliberately poverty-stricken melody-five of its eight phrases end on the same querulous note...