Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been bought since 1935. Songs from Disney pictures sell $250,000 worth of records and sheet music annually. Since 1933 more than $750 million worth of merchandise featuring the Disney characters-740 companies currently make 2,928 items, from Mickey Mouse weathervanes to Pluto paper slotties to Donald Duck toidy seats-has crossed the counters of the world...
...hands the laws of physics turned to taffy. Shadows walked away from bodies. Men got so angry they split in two. Trains ate cookies. Autos flirted. People stretched like rubber bands. But it became harder and harder to outwit the public. Disney gags got downright erudite. In one cartoon Donald Duck might walk over the edge of a cliff and fall down. In the next he would walk off the cliff and keep right on walking-on air. In the next he would keep walking, suddenly notice where he was-and then fall. In the next, he would run back...
Even after 26 years, the public eye has not wearied of watching Mickey Mouse. Of all the cartoon animals, only Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny are more popular today. In any event, Mickey is likely to be remembered, long after all the others are forgotten, for one decisive moment when he stood at the absolute center of human affairs. On June 6, 1944, the D-day of the Allied invasion of France, the code word for the entire Allied operation was "Mickey Mouse...
...against Lionel Corp.'s suit to stop the department stores from cutting prices on electric trains. Macy accused Lionel of discriminating against the department stores in favor of discount houses, of using department stores as "showcases and [to] provide ... an umbrella for price-cutting ..." Said Macy Attorney Donald Smiley: "Discount houses have been making a mockery of Fair Trade prices." As a result, Macy, Gimbels and other New York department stores kept right on discounting scores of Fair Trade products, and were offering a $65 Lionel train for Christmas...
...Group will probably not join the Big Ten in breaking away from the National Collegiate Athletic Association next month over the issue of football television, Donald M. Felt, assistant director of Athletics, said last night...