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...this mild front," says his brother Roy, "but underneath it there's drive, drive, drive." He runs a one-man studio. "When you work here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict him, you're out. Even the top creators at the studio have to be careful. Nothing is really funny until it's proclaimed...
...police reconstructed the case, the watches were bought for $3.50, the original brand name was erased with acid, and "Bulov 17" stamped on in ink. The watch looked like the real Bulova 23 model, which retails for $95. The fakes were sold to street hawkers, who sold them at bus depots and railroad stations for up to $23 each. Chief victims: service men in transit. At week's end Furie was charged with counterfeiting a trademark (maximum sentence: one year), let out on $500 bail...
...than $1,000,000. Katapodis, who said that he was supposed to get $1,000,000 himself for being Onassis' go-between in the deal, announced in Paris this week that he was going to sue Onassis for reneging: Onassis, he claimed, signed the agreement with him in ink that faded...
...vandals who broke into the Malabar School on Los Angeles' overcrowded east side did a thoroughgoing job. They whirled through nine classrooms, the athletic rooms, the teachers' kitchen and dining room. They broke chairs and tables, splattered ink over the walls, smashed whatever clocks they happened to find. Last week the five boys responsible found out that crime doesn't pay. It had taken L.A.'s special school security section only a few hours to track them down...
...profession. He can enclose what he sees in a few simple lines, like bent coat hangers, or dissolve it into a haze of dots, a la Seurat. He draws on top of photographs, and occasionally draws imitation snapshots. He can and does mimic passports, old maps, and documents with ink drawings that look fairly convincing and 100% illegible. He will make a thumbprint do for a man's face, a chest of drawers for an office building and a soft roll for an automobile...