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Thread #79725   Message #1450633
Posted By: Mark Cohen
03-Apr-05 - 01:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Irish Ballad (Tom Lehrer)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Irish Ballad (Tom Lehrer)
That's Ronald Searle, who is very well known on this side of the water, at least.

When I was in college, I had a friend named Doug Quine, whose father, W.V. Quine, was a professor of mathematical philosophy at Harvard. Doug told me that Tom Lehrer was the only person who ever got an A in his father's graduate seminar and did not go directly into academics. Until very recently, Tom was still teaching half the year in Cambridge or somewhere else Bostonish, and the other half in California...though he may well have retired by now.

If you put "Tom Lehrer" in the search box at the top of the page, you will find "Too Many Threads About Tom Lehrer."

Aloha,
Mark