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DEAR HEART AND OTHER SONGS ABOU LOVE (RCA Victor). Henry Mancini has for writing songs that become in stantly familiar. Like (I Love You and) Don't You Forget It, in which "I love you" is repeated 22 times, and Dear Heart, a sentimental waltz that has become this season's must for crooners. Composer-Conductor Mancini's first all-choral al bum is a meticulous blend of voices with orchestra, suitable for his own gentle concoctions but too tame for the Beatlemamc Can't Buy Me Love...
...Volkswagens and Mercedes has helped boost passenger-car registrations 75% in the past five years. TV sets in use have tripled since 1960, and while bandy legged Willy Elmayer, the 80-year-old ex-cavalry officer who runs Vienna's most famous dancing school, still teaches the Viennese waltz to 2,000 gawky, white-gloved teen-agers a week ("the harmony of the waltz brings harmony into our lives"), his curriculum also includes the twist, slop, frug and Watusi...
...Beatles also made it all right to be white. As French Critic Frank Tenot notes: "Since the downfall of the Viennese waltz, nothing in popular music, and particularly dance, has known any success unless associated with one or another of the rhythmic discoveries of the Negro." Beatle music (known as "the Mersey sound") and even Beatle accents are actually Anglicized imitations of Negro rhythm and blues once removed. Says Beatle John Lennon: "We can sing more colored than the Africans...
Harvard recently has made it a practice to dominate the singles play, but this year there's some sharp competition. Two sophomores, Yale's Jack Waltz and Dartmouth's Charlie Hoevler, have to be rated as favorites along with Crimson star Chum Steele, who lost in the finals to teammate Frank Ripley last year...
...doubles, Steele and Crimson captain Dean Peckham are top seeded, followed by Waltz and Mike Brooks of Yale, defending champions Ewen and Allen of Williams, and Trinity's Andrews and Cantrell...