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...COMPLETE ANDERSEN (1,239 PP) -Heritage Press ($6.95). All the old magic of Hans Christian Andersen in one handsome volume, newly translated by Danish-born Actor Jean Hersholt, plus three tales never published before...
...this movie magnificence, the film's most genuinely affecting moments are in Danny Kaye's performance in the title role. Looking a little like a Danish Walter Mitty, Comedian Kaye foregoes his familiar scat type of clowning to give a gentle, appealing and restrained characterization. Whether he flies a kite, sings to an inchworm, talks to a dog or transforms his thumb into a little girl, Kaye succeeds in conjuring up something of the charm of a child's storybook world: that magical realm of slippered kings, pouting princesses, dragons and serpents, flowers that waltz, and porcelain...
...doesn't waste words, often merely barks out the monosyllables "Right!" "Shoot!" "No!". But if necessary he can talk for hours-with great clarity. He speaks five languages (Danish, English, Spanish, German, French), but deprecates this facility, saying: "Languages have always come easy for me. It has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just a gift in that direction...
...Danish reader, Paul Grene, who enclosed a picture of his very comfortable home, rashly extended an invitation to have TIME correspondents visit him. He wrote: "If one of your correspondents should happen to be in Denmark . . . and have a few days off, ask him to come over and see us. We have some pretty good fishing and shooting and a fairly comfortable spare room...
...campaign for "Trade, Not Aid." Last week, five U.S. allies-Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-charged that U.S. tariff restrictions on imported dairy products are a flagrant violation of the worldwide General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "It is incomprehensible," said a Danish delegate to GATT, "that the U.S. prefers to continue to assist us through dollar grants from the American taxpayer . . . instead of allowing us to pay in goods for dollars we urgently need to buy American products." The Dutch, even angrier, slapped a retaliatory tariff on U.S. flour imports...