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...song mostly from matter of exploitation . . . When I make the title tune for High Noon, I think song help make continuity, musical dissolves, time element ... I thinking this picture a little bit too static. Music give feeling of action. I get inspiration from American bandit songs from Carl Sandburg's American Song Bag." The tune, with Lyricist Ned Washington's help, soon became a jukebox favorite, has sold almost 2,000,000 records. Tiomkin has already earned more in royalties than he got for supplying the movie score...
Great Men of Our Age (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC). Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, is No. 4 in a series which has already presented Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost and Poet Carl Sandburg...
...Carl Sandburg arrived to film his autobiography...
...Always the Young Strangers, his autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
Always the Young Strangers is old Poet Sandburg exercising mellow and total recall. He seems to remember every playmate, neighbor and town character of the first 20 years of his life. And he tells about them with an artless lack of point and discrimination that flirts perilously with final boredom. A historian 100 years from now may easily conclude: this is how a Midwestern U.S. town must have looked in the 1880s. But the impression would be only tintype deep, for Author Sandburg has seemingly cared little about looking past the frock coats and working clothes for attitudes and feelings...