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Chandler's indestructible popularity in Kentucky and his ballad-singing, back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TiME, Aug...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME, Aug...
Chop Off His Head. The monarchy into which Princess Margaret was born in Scotland on the stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed...
Doing Too Much. Butler seemed wan and tired as he stepped up to the dispatch box amid Labor jeers and Tory silence. He started with the good news, pointing out that his "credit squeeze" (TIME, Aug. 8) had strengthened sterling and "effectively halted" the loss of Britain's reserves. British industrial production is still growing at the rate of almost 6% a year, yet "in spite of new production records, we are faced with a shortage of steel . . . For every individual unemployed there are now more than two vacancies . . . Imports have been 11% higher than they were in corresponding...