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...young"). His show is conceived as a TV illustration of Alexander Pope's line: "The proper study of mankind is man." The shows he is proudest of: an evocation of the love poems of Emily Dickinson, a ripsnorting Moby Dick, a song-and-dance recreation of The Ballad of John Brown. Camera Three is so far above the class of most commercial evening shows that with only a fraction of the money squandered on some of them it could probably outclass itself...
...From an old ballad...
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...
...Ballads, Muir said, were the traditional folk poetry and it was through this form that the poet and his community could most closely join to create new works or alter existing ones. But even the ballad has fallen victim to contemporary tastes which have been dulled by movies, the radio, and the press...
...diverse club is plush Storyville, which frequently features such performers as Dave Brubeck and "Wild Bill" Davison (appearing next week). Its range of transient musicians (which has also included ballad-singer Josh White) and the club's usual minimum puts Storyville in its own special class, although its present show is very similar musically to Boston's new rhythm form...