Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party-liner. When Strachey was appointed Secretary of State for War the same day that Spy Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison, the Standard headlined: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. For Coupling Fuchs and Strachey, the British press jumped on the Standard so hard that the doughty Beaver began to worry. At the start, he and Gunn had both agreed that the campaign was a fine idea, but the Beaver soon cooled. Not so Editor Gunn. There was no doubt that the whole affair had seriously hurt the Standard's professional prestige...
...Standard headlined: PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A. Canada-born Lord Beaverbrook, who considers himself a staunch friend of the U.S., was furious, especially when the headline was quoted in the U.S. press as an instance of British ill will. The subeditor who wrote the headline was fired and the Beaver scorched Gunn for good measure. Gunn stood firm, argued that the headline was "no more than a quotation" (but not an exact one) from the story under it by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech. But the Beaver had had enough...
...Beaver Valley (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is the second in the series of short Technicolored nature documentaries that Walt Disney launched in 1948 with his Oscar-winning Seal Island. Photographed with enormous patience and resourcefulness by Cameraman Alfred G. Milotte, and put together with the sprightly humor of a Disney cartoon, it is an intimate record of wild life in & around a beaver pond in the Rockies...
...wild creatures, from the crayfish to the moose, are caught in unguarded moments during each of the four seasons of the year. The camera looks aloft to watch hawks exchanging a dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...
Skillful editing, scoring and commentary combine to humanize the animals almost as if they sprang from the Disney drawing board, and produce an engaging little story in which Hero Beaver and his friends outwit Villain Coyote while some frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study...