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Like Schickel, TIME'S Hollywood Correspondent Roland Flamini entered a movie theater for the first time in his life as a six-year-old in England to see Snow White. One of his biggest surprises in reporting the Disney story was the style of the Disney executives...
...prepare for her article on "Disney After Walt," Show Business Writer Judy Fayard sat through three full-length Disney cartoons, all of which she had seen before. The spell lingered, too, for she wore a Mouseketeer hat as she wrote the story...
...financial fellows think we're going to fall on our faces without Walt," said his brother Roy O. Disney a few months after Walt Disney died...
...Well, we're going to fool them." By Jiminy Cricket, fool them they did. Seven and a half years later, Walt Disney Productions has become the only blue-chip stock in show business. The company's revenues have soared, from $116.6 million to $329 million, and so have profits, from $ 12.4 million to a record $40 million. In fearing that the Disney empire would founder after the death of its founding genius, the financial fellows forgot to reckon on one thing: the continuing presence of Walt Disney...
...corner of Mickey Boulevard and Dopey Drive was left exactly as it was the day he died. In April, it was dismantled and painstakingly reconstructed at Disneyland-the notes where he left them on the low black desk, the scripts he was reading tucked neatly in the rack behind. Disney executives reverentially continue to invoke Walt's philosophy; often in discussing projects or plans, they will offer the ultimate approval: "Walt would have liked...