LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at ...

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For the small cult-like fan group who follows the satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, the title of a delightful local ...

Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s before returning to a career teaching math, has died at age 97. Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., ...

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Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Tom Lehrer was a mathematician—and quite a good one, by all accounts.

Tom Lehrer, the mathematician and song satirist who had a massive musical influence in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. Lehrer passed away Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...