Music: Voice of Experience

With typical Gallic acuity, a Paris newspaper recently tipped its readers off to the fact that the fastest-rising U.S. teen-age singing star is in reality a 32-year-old midget. U.S. editors prefer to accept the claims of her pressagent that Songstress Brenda Lee is barely 16 years old and that her growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part...

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