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Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period in Walt Disney's life lasted from 1901 to 1930. In 1901 Walt was born in Chicago. His father, Elias, was a contractor, who now lives quietly with Walt's mother in Oregon and hears from his famous son about twice a year. The family moved...
...apple that TWA will do a swell job with the new "excursions by air" at lower rates [TIME, Nov. 15]. However, maybe TWA and the other big shot airlines don't appreciate that there are many many thousands of us traveling men, oldtime "Knights of the Grip." or "Angels of Commerce" "Commercial Tourists" (or what you will), who would jump at the opportunity to go home over weekends from where we might be by air, but the outward trip should be Friday, not Saturday, or even Thursday (for the long week-enders). To compensate for moving it back from...
...remember, boys, while these Harvard people have treated you boys swell, have dined you at the best hotels, put you up in the finest bedrooms, boys, remember this--when you go out there on the field never forget that every one of them Harvard fellows votes the straight Republican ticket." . . . Ed Nace, Letter to the Editors of "Time...
...remember, boys, while these Harvard people have treated you boys swell, have dined you at the best hotels, put you up in the finest bedrooms, boys, remember this- when you go out there on the field never forget that every one of them Harvard fellows votes the straight Republican ticket...
...good cronies Hitler and other future Nazi big shots called him "Der Amerikaner." This nickname came from his familiarity with the U. S., his smart clothes, wrist watch, nervy wit. He was, said Hitler, half-facetiously refusing him permission to make soapbox speeches, ''too much of a swell.'' Later, when Nazi officials had limousines and champagne, the nickname still stuck-but with a shadier meaning, derived partly from Ludecke's too thoughtful awareness of U. S. anti-Nazi opinion. "A strange bird," Hitler now said, "a good head, but a dangerous brother...