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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls had shown that a majority of visiting moppets liked Jiminy Cricket best of all Disney characters. Captious critics, looking at the Disney show as art, could still complain that Disney is more successful with mice, ducks, dwarfs and hobgoblins than with human characters. But they had to admit that in his first 17 years Disney had never stood still or done the same thing twice. Today, with world-famed composers and artists clamoring to work at its Burbank studio, Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. is revolutionizing art faster than all the longhairs of Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mickey Mouse on Parade | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Last month, the copper industry admit ted that there was a copper shortage and made a deal with Defense Commissioner Henderson to let 100,000 tons of cheap Latin-American copper into the U. S. this year (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week from the Defense Advisory Commission came reports of a new study of copper demand based on the fabricating mills running on Knudsen schedule - three shifts a day, sev en days a week. On the basis of the U. S.'s using Latin America's capacity output (perhaps 600,000 tons a year), it estimated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy v. Defense | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Last week U. S. football fans were ready to admit that Rockne was right. Taking over a feeble Stanford team that had failed to win a Pacific Coast Conference game last year, Coach Shaughnessy and his T formation (a sort of button-button -who's -got -the -button offensive ) transformed the wooden Indians into the most formidable team on the Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowl Bids | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTH OF BOSTON | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Down at Tech, to round out the picture, they won't even admit themselves to a cheerful or a gloomy outlook. They have three veterans back from their 41 to 28 victory in the opener last year, but the best of them. Captain Ronic Samuels may be out of the game with a bum leg. Three more men have shown promise but have never played before in a varsity game...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Varsity Hoopsters Rely on Teamwork Tonight As Season Opens Against Novice M.I.T. Squad | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

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