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Unfortunately, the film's continuity is almost as ragged as its moppets, and just as inclined to make too much of a good thing. But Director Robert Varnay knows how to cut loose a camera for comic effect, and the kids (Jacques Gencel,* Sophie Leclair, De Meulan, et al.) appear human and likable, never consciously cute, and seldom more precocious than a childhood on Montmartre streets might warrant...
...fight was over control of the electric-power plants the New Deal has built (Tennessee Valley Authority, Bonneville, Grand Coulee), is building (Shasta, Red River, Santee-Cooper), and hopes to build (Arkansas River, St. Lawrence Seaway). One man wanted to control them all. The man: doughty, venomous, honest Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior...
Valiantly but vainly has Interior Secretary Harold LeClair Ickes tried to get in on the U.S. defense program, but last week he found an alternative. His Fish and Wildlife Service produced a five-page masterwork entitled "Seafood Salads for Summer Menus." Argued the Department's expert-in-charge-of-seafood-salads: "As a heat-forgetter, for unexpected company, or as a quickly prepared meal-in-itself in a busy household, try a tangy seafood salad during the coming summer days." Sang the expert, crediting "Unknown...
...Washington one day last week, a group of newsmen shuffled into an imposing fifth-floor conference room at the Department of the Interior. One by one, they read copies of a statement by querulous, plump little Secretary Harold LeClair Ickes. Their faces lengthened...
...night last January in Manhattan's Town Hall, portly, irascible Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, met Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett in radio debate on the question: "Do we have a free press?" Secretary Ickes' answer was a querulous...