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He types up song lyrics, pastes them on the mirror to learn while dressing. Bunk Johnson, his old teacher who got his first national popularity at 66, after ten years as an obscure laborer in the Louisiana rice fields (TIME, Nov. 5), dropped in to see him last week. Bunk now plays in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Casino dance hall, with the kind of small New Orleans jazz band that Louis abandoned years ago. Bunk still reveres his pupil. Says he: "Don't expect me to play like my boy Louis, 'cause when Louis does up I does down."