Tom Lehrer, Army Vet, Song Satirist and Mathematician, Dies at 97

Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif.

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did […]