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...Burbank, Calif, last week, Walt Disney was presented with the 5,000,000th watch to be manufactured with the name and likeness of Mickey Mouse. As he put it among his trophies, Disney smiled at a beaming, moon-faced Manhattan salesman named Kay Kamen...
Disney and Kamen had just signed a seven-year renewal of a 16-year business association. As the salesman of exclusive manufacturing rights for Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, Kamen has not only planted their likenesses on children's watches, but on 2,000 other products, ranging from meat, breakfast foods and fruit juices to weather vanes, candy, cameras, toys, sweaters, ice cream packages and wallpaper. This year goods bearing the faces of Disney characters will bring in a retail gross of $100 million...
Black Lamb. Kamen, who defines his sales territory as reaching "from the Isthmus of Panama to Hudson Bay" (after Jan. 1 Disney's brother, Roy, will handle the rest of the world), considers himself the world's greatest Disney fan. Whenever a new picture is completed, he flies to Hollywood to preview it, begins selling its characters before the film is even released. Last week he had just seen Disney's latest, So Dear to My Heart, was already lining up contracts to reproduce its animal hero Danny, a little black lamb...
Disney and Kamen both started their early careers in Kansas City. There, in the early '20s, Disney was struggling along as a commercial artist, Kamen as a sales promotion man for department stores...
...Spiegelman and Kamen worked with yeast cells, proved that their chemical behavior could be changed, while the genes remained unchanged. This suggested strongly that something besides the genes affected cell characteristics...