Two of the heroes of my youth died this past week, one at 97 and the other at 103. The youngster was Tom Lehrer. A math genius who wrote and performed naughty patter songs with elegant rhyming schemes ...
Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...