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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antlike studios of Walt Disney Productions Ltd. at Burbank, Calif., Phil Dike is one of the more important ants. He is Disney's ace color coordinator. On the side, he paints water colors of his own. Last week Phil Dike had a one-man show at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries. Technically expert, untroubled by surrealist neuroses, social struggle or pneumatic nudes, Dike's splashy water colors of mountains, windswept beaches, palm-plumed countryside were sometimes reminiscent of Japanese landscape prints, were as brightly lush as a Montecito bougainvillea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Disney's Dike | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...little Dutch boy who saved his country by plugging the dike with his fist was missing last week. His duty this time would have been to blow up the Moerdijk Bridge, longest on the Continent, connecting Rotterdam and the heart of The Netherlands with south Holland across the 1∧ mile wide Hollandsch Diep (joint estuary of the Maas and Waal Rivers). A gallon of well placed nitroglycerin would at least have delayed the German armored column which, having raced 85 miles westward in less than 86 hours (TIME, May 20), clanked across to reinforce Nazi parachute and air ferried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Fall of The Netherlands | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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