Music: Idol of the Girls

Crooner Tony Bennett, 25, is the latest idol of the bobby-sox set; in Manhattan's Paramount Theater last week, Tony's tune-punching had the girls squealing and curling their toes in their saddle shoes. Bennett accepted the acclaim (and $4,000 a week), though he protested the while that he would really rather be doing something else.

"This isn't the kind of singing I want to do," he explained. "I can go out onstage and crush them every time—they'd stand on their hands for me. But I don't like being sensational that way. If I could sing the way I like to sing—naturally—I'd be a...