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Despite the tale's complexities, the characters are simple, except for Danny Kaye. Glynis Johns, is also a veteran of the Walt Disney-type saga of the Middle Ages, has by now learned how to be a comely wench in the best neo-medieval style. The most slippery of the courtiers, Ravenhurst, is played by Basil Rathbone who duels once and sneers and stands around. The rest of the people mostly stand around while Danny Kaye does things. He is good at doing things because he is bewitched most of the time, therefore bold, daring, and resourceful...
...Walt Whitman and Camden bridge dispute [Feb. 6]: in dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...
...Walt Disney happily has moved in for the weekend at the U.T. The African Lion will growl at Peter and the Wolf and The Emporer Penguine. Fred McMurray thinks he has everyone At Gunpoint, but he won't have you if you enter...
...their battle to remove the name of "homoerotic" Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery...
...poorest budgets, the smallest audiences. That is what happened for more than two years to Robert Herridge, 38, producer of CBS's Camera Three. His 30-minute show has intellectual substance and imaginative flair, and has ranged from studies of Biblical man to verbal and pictorial experiments with Walt Whitman's poetry. But the program was confined to one local Manhattan station (WCBS), was televised on Saturdays at 2 p.m., reached a maximum audience of only 500,000, and had a production budget of $1,600 per show (about one-fifth the cost of an average three-minute...