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...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
Once, when Beaverbrook did act without consulting Franks, he got himself into difficulties. The Beaver turned up at a cabinet meeting with a set of inaccurate labor figures, which Franks and his statisticians could have told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
When the Black Magic caught up with Shirley May, Reporter Musel climbed up in the rigging, relayed his tardy report to U.P. by walkie-talkie. An eager-beaver Mutual newscaster tried to creep down beside Shirley May for a waterside interview, but she was too busy. From the Black Magic's deck, Frank Sinatra records beamed encouragement to the struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman...
Last week the hard part of the work was under way. Museum cabinetmakers were making sure the beaver case would be dustproof and crackproof. The accessories man was up to his ears in drifts of paper leaves. The taxidermist was trying to decide on an oil to make one of the beavers stay wet-looking (he thought an overdose of Kreml might be the best bet). The electricians were working for a muted, dusky lighting effect. Wilson himself had three months painting ahead on the beaver background...
...team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a matter of patience and technique...