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...profits." Major clue to Hollywood's interest in TV deals lies in the booming success of ABC's tie-in with Walt Disney (TIME, Dec. 27). Since its start last October, Disneyland has been in the top ten in the Nielsen ratings; one of its songs, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, is a frequent No. 1 on the Hit Parade. Plugged on the TV show, Disney's movie 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is the nation's top-grossing picture, all without much added overhead. Said Walt's businesslike brother Roy: "Going into...
...book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
...Conservative League may ask Dean Watson to cancel a concert of ballad-singer Pete Seoger '40, sponsored by the Society for Minority Rights, Kenneth E. Thompson '57, league president, said yesterday...
...October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...Clansman. Trained in the law but bored by it, Scott led a bluff and loyal clansman's life in George III's Scotland and collected the Border ballads he loved. At 33 he published his own ballad. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and it sold an unheard-of 40,000 copies. After such narrative poems as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake (which started a great tourist rush for the Scottish moors and highlands), Scott started turning out his medieval romances and his beloved tales of bygone borderers and buccaneers...