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BLONDIE ON A BUDGET: The Blondie series is a classic of Americana, ringing absolutely the correct not in its portrayal of everyday citizens. The films are all about the same, and all good. Sometimes the plots are too ambitious, involving the elaborate business deals of J.C. Dithers, Dagwood's boss, with Blondie always saving the day. That is the main trouble with this installment. But in the treatment of detail and atmosphere, it is like all the rest, superb. Art critics seeking modern American genre are missing a promising field if they do not consider this unpretentious product of Hollywood...
Robert Alphonso Taft. Months ago (TIME, Dec. 18), the U. S. settled back to enjoy the Adventures of Robert in Bumbledom, decided that one of Mr. Taft's most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...
...Blondie," a screen adaptation of the famous newspaper comic strip, bogs down in occasional nauseating bits of slushy sentimentality, but the antics of Dagwood and Baby Dumpling generally prove amusing...