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Last week's race was, as usual, a ten-ring circus. The brassy oompah of Otto-Otto Kermbach's band thundered the Sportpalast Waltz-a ditty whose magic lies in the fact that every few bars the audience can join in with three short, shrill whistles. When enough beer and schnapps had flowed (nightly sales total 18,000 glasses of each), spectators swarmed onto the infield to dance. Fist fights flared in the smoky upper reaches of the grandstands, known as the "hayloft." The occupants of this low-cost Olympus exercise dictatorial power over the groundlings, demanding...
...Yale sophomore named Jack Waltz, one of the country's top 15 juniors last year, and Tom Gallinado of Cornell, a winner against Ripley in this spring's match, will be other top players. Perhaps the favorites, though, will be two Pennsylvania players, John Reese and Bailey Brown, who look ready to become stars as seniors after playing together for two years...
DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...
...gilt chairs at dime-sized tables, last week's audience snacked on ham sand wiches, strawberry sundaes, champagne, beer, pink "Pops punch" and Fiedler's musical buffet-everything from a glass-rattling Sousa march ("to get everybody's attention") to a Mendelssohn concerto, a Strauss waltz, a Weber overture and a splash of lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello, Dolly! punctuated with the wheeee...
...under a talented organizer and ex-schoolteacher named Josei Toda. Soka Gakkai now claims 13 million members and 100,000 converts a month. While some critics question these figures, there is no doubt that the movement is gaining impressively. Last month, at ceremonies featuring martial bands, a waltz-playing orchestra, an all-girl chorus and sutra-chanting priests, Soka Gakkai formally dedicated a $4,500,000 recreation-and-worship center at the foot of Mount Fuji...