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Johnny Frenchman (J. Arthur Rank-Universal) explores a novel and fascinating locale: a Cornish fishing village and its Breton counterpart across the Channel. The picture also preaches a worthy moral: "People of good will are pretty much the same, no matter what language they speak...
...General Assembly of the United Nations, a clearing-house for the opinions of member countries can be persuasive or forceful in the adjustment of international problems. The instrument is as effective in its potentialities as its destructive counterpart--the fissionable atom. But for all the prayers offered up to a good of peace, and for all the prophesies of professional well-wishes, the United Nations, as Secretary General Trygve Lie said,". . . is no stronger than the elective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing...
...Winants' West Coast counterpart is Graphic Educational Productions, alias Jerome Goldberg of Los Angeles. Graphic's more ambitious series is for children from five to nine - who spend most of their time asking "Why, Daddy?" The records will give the right answer to 25 perennial posers such as "Why are bees so busy?" "Why do I have to go to sleep?" Goldberg's formula: mixing solid fact, harmless fiction and sound effects. Sample (from Graphic's What Makes Rain...
...wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...
...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...