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Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "The Protest"-an examination of American culture, with Radio Monologuist Jean Shepard...
...line, in a popular song, singing: "Hello, Central, give me Heaven." She wanted to talk to her mother. And never did the eternal triangle chime more funereally than it did in the Nineties, most notably under the hand of Paul Dresser, songwriter (The Banks of the Wabash), monologuist, medicine-wagon minstrel and older brother of Theodore Dreiser. Dresser's He Brought Home Another might have qualified as the first great aria in soap opera...
Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...addition to Monologuist King, Cott fills his Newark studios with an impressive line-up of talkers. Producer David Susskind has no time limit at all on his Sunday-night round table, Open End (TIME, Nov. 24), and it usually rambles on for two hours. Mike Wallace, the waspish interviewer of a few seasons back, conducts half-hour sessions Monday through Friday. Bishop Fulton Sheen holds forth on Tuesdays, New Jersey's Governor on Sunday, Beauty Consultant Richard Willis Monday through Friday; Fannie Hurst's Showcase follows Willis. Henry Morgan snarls at his sponsors Friday evenings. Actor Martin...
...never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week before the unforgiving cameras of Ed Sullivan's TV show-it seemed hardly probable that sad-sack Monologuist Shelley Berman could deliver...