Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antlike studios of Walt Disney Productions Ltd. at Burbank, Calif., Phil Dike is one of the more important ants. He is Disney's ace color coordinator. On the side, he paints water colors of his own. Last week Phil Dike had a one-man show at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries. Technically expert, untroubled by surrealist neuroses, social struggle or pneumatic nudes, Dike's splashy water colors of mountains, windswept beaches, palm-plumed countryside were sometimes reminiscent of Japanese landscape prints, were as brightly lush as a Montecito bougainvillea...
...blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
...hired him to teach drawing and composition in the training school on the Disney lot, soon promoted him to the job of color coordinator. His main job: matching Technicolor reproductions with original colored sketches made by other Disney artists. When Disney went to work on his artistically ambitious Fantasia, Phil Dike made sketches for Toccata & Fugue, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria...
...Winship is running the down-mountain race on the Teardrop trail, as well as the slalom and jump. Roger Wilson and Lindley Burton will participate in both the eight-mile langlauf and the jump. Jack Crawford has also been entered in these two events; Phil Field is scheduled to race in the slalom, and Bungle King in both speed tests...
Attendance was only soso during the House debate, and slender to sparse at the Senate hearings, except when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...