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...takes Author Mitford a lot of maneuvering to outwit Sigi's determination to have at least as many fathers as Georgie. If, in the last few rounds, the Mitford inventive power shows signs of weariness, this is no doubt due to her having fought the early ones with so much carefree audacity. The Blessing is her seventh, and best, novel (runners-up: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate), and its overall gaiety more than makes up for the fact that its British nannies, French lovers, ECA Americans, etc. are not so much fresh creations as types lifted...
Skillful editing, scoring and commentary combine to humanize the animals almost as if they sprang from the Disney drawing board, and produce an engaging little story in which Hero Beaver and his friends outwit Villain Coyote while some frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study...
Only Nature herself works more insistently with the fate & fortunes of U.S. farmers. Agriculture's crop experts tell them how much they may grow (if they want Government supports) and economists decide how much they can collect for their crops. Its hydrologists help them outwit the weather; its Federal Crop Insurance Corp. protects them from loss if the weather wins. The Department's Rural Electrification Administration has brought electricity to more than 3,000,000 rural consumers; the Farmers Home Administration's 8,000,000 loans have helped 2,000,000 farm families...
...Truman compromised their non-partisan character and laid them open to partisan attacks by certain legislators and by lobbyists who make cash on government confusion. Congress, by keeping its collective head, can still pass all the Commission-backed proposals. But to save these plans, it must survive pressure and outwit the Capitol's balcony quarterbacks in the next few days...
This time Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...