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...into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Glasgow's Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Economical Empress | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

What the French student needs is not too different from what the French people need. He needs to be a go-getter, an eager beaver, someone out for a fast buck. Say what you may, it's this kind of person that has brought competition into the U.S. And we all know from our civics books that competition makes us strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...drizzle did not get worse, and it was on open-air Beaver Field, before 20,000 people in sodden coats or academic gowns, that the President of the United States accepted his degree and delivered this speech: "You men and women venture forth into a world where human nature differs little, if at all, from human nature in 1915 or in the age of Pericles. Human relations -the art of getting along with the people who work beside you and with those who live thousands of miles away-does not change . . . But the age of nuclear energy, in its industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Time for New Franklins | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Beaver Valley, an Academy Award-winning feature, and African Adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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