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...Abe Burrows of GSAS, Tom Lehrer has been convulsing party, night club, and House Dance audiences with the wit and skillful presentations of songs he has composed. He has made his mark as versifier, mathematician, pianist, teacher, and actor, but he evidently needs some further introduction to the Harvard community, because his lately-released recording has been only a moderate success...
...music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Abe Burrows) is a period musical in the good but also the bad sense of the word. It often captures the rakish, even the Lautrec-ish animation of Paris in the '905, but it has often, too, the feeble plotting and labored prattle of memory-book musicomedy. Actually a number of things in it merit high praise, but these do not include such trifles as the music, the lyrics or the libretto...
...music is pleasant enough, but not close to par for Cole Porter: it has a "school of Cole Porter" air. The lyrics would not be a credit to anyone, and for Porter they fall woefully flat. Abe Burrows' book, largely concerned with the love of a priggish young judge (Peter Cookson) and a prancing, Montmartre Jezebel, rises only once-in a funny duel scene-from banality to Burrows...
...circles learned that Joseph C. O'Mahoney, defeated in November for re-election as Democratic Senator from Wyoming, will be one of the defense lawyers in the perjury trial of Far Eastern Expert Owen Lattimore next March. The full defense team will include old New Dealers Thurman Arnold, Abe Fortas and Paul A. Porter...
...Panto Died. It was O'Dwyer, as a politically ambitious prosecutor in Brooklyn, who publicly promised justice in the case of Panto. It was O'Dwyer who finally let Anastasia, the killer, go free for lack of evidence after Star Witness Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles "jumped or fell" from a Coney Island hotel room in which six New York cops stood guard. But last week the commission exhumed a report, buried by O'Dwyer, on the exact circumstances of Panto's death...