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...Vera Little is a strapping, 27-year-old Memphis girl who went to Europe on a Fulbright fellowship in 1954 to study voice at the Paris Conservatory. While on a concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew...
...Mabel Mercer (Atlantic; 2 LPs). In a triumph of mind over voice, Songstress Mercer runs through 20-odd songs she made famous in small cafés. Her voice, never sumptuous, wobbles badly in such numbers as Let Me Love You and You Will Wear Velvet, but the phrasing is impeccable, and she can still infuse songs like Some Fine Day and The End of a Love Affair with an emotional charge that other singers never guessed was there...
Ousted. To Ottawans, it was plain that Editor (and Rotary Club President) Hames had been fired over the hospital issue. Packing into Ottawa's Heinz Café, a committee of 61 business and professional leaders held two protest meetings to urge Hames's reinstatement. Said one committee member: "If Herb Hames is fired, freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that...
...smoke-filled cellar cafés and cold-water flats of San Francisco's waterfront and Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the word these days is "beat." Patriarch and prophet of what he calls "the beat generation" is a 35-year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious...
...surgical knife we must cut out this sore from the body politic." "I built Rome; with Rome I stand or fall," Vaselli growled, and refused to leave his 250-room Piazza del Popolo palace (a floor apiece for his three sons, the ground floor thriftily let to a popular café, where the intelligentsia met to debate socializing wealth). Instead, he used his depreciating lire to buy apartments and land from fellow capitalists who lacked nerve and fore sight to bet their wealth against the Reds, and emerged richer than ever...