Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles in art is cleverly done. And yet the danger does begin to appear, in a kind...
WALT DISNEY has made a multimillion-dollar deal with the American Broadcasting Co. to put his entire menagerie on TV. Starting in October, Disney will turn out a weekly, hour-long cartoon show with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck & Co., has agreed to do a minimum of 26 each year under a long-term contract...
...Chester Wilmot. 56. His bristling incorruptibility, his endless suspicion of other politicos, and his Donald Duck temper came through in The Secret Diary of this old New Dealer: 1. Henry Morgenthau...
Back in Washington, Nixon found that his prestige had grown with the success of his trip. He took up his role of adviser on domestic policy, argued the Cabinet into proposing changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, reversing a decision to duck such political dynamite in an election year. Sold on Nixon's view, the Cabinet asked Ike to plump for the amendments in a major speech. This time the Vice President sounded a note of caution: save the President for the real fight: don't waste his prestige where it isn't needed. The Cabinet agreed...
Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...