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Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British...
Keeping his 1,200 artists, animators, sound engineers and helpers mum, Walt Disney started work, soon got the machinery of his new $3,000,000 Burbank, Calif, studio rolling on Fantasia. Deciding to go the whole artistic hog, they picked the highest of high-brow classical music. To do right by this music, the old mouse opera comedy was not enough. The Disney studio went high-brow wholesale, and Disney technicians racked their brains for stuff that would startle and awe rather than tickle the audience...
...pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for advice. A herd of pet iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs and enough plain run-of-the-Jurassic dinosaurs to people a planet. Studio...
Commenting about Professor Taussig's prominent position in the Economics Department here, Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, said, "He very clearly was regarded by most of us here and by the world at large as the outstanding economist of his time...
...Burbank, Calif, students studied U. S. relations to the war, ended by petitioning Congress to strengthen U. S. defenses, take control of the armaments industry, limit war profits...