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Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profitmaking Hollywoodsman Walt Disney built the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine-and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 million have taken up the offer. Last week 24,000, including Vice President Nixon and his family, were on hand to help Walt celebrate the fourth anniversary of the toy. Crooned M.C. Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter: "Disneyland -its only purpose . . . the pursuit of happiness...
...revealingly pensive mood, Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 54, crooned some honest parental doubts to the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywoodsman Joe Hyams. "I guess I didn't do very well in bringing my boys up," brooded Bing. "I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention. I never had much success talking with them. The thing is, it burns me up when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay...
...Another Hollywoodsman with a yen for politics, Edward Arnold, portentous statesman of the movies and radio, who a fortnight ago filed for Senator on the Republican side, last week reconsidered and withdrew...
Married. Agnes George de Mille, 34, smart choreographer; and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieut. Walter Prude, 33; each for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Daughter of Hollywoodsman William de Mille (Cecil's brother), she devised the dances for Broadway's current musical smash, Oklahoma...
...loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...
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