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Kalmbach asked for a donation of $100,000, Spater continued, and "I was told that contributions of this amount would be regarded as in a special class." American's ex-chairman likened any thought of refusing to cooperate to the terra incognita on ancient mariners' charts, which is filled "with all sorts of fierce-looking creatures." It was not, he explained, so much a matter of what favors a hefty gift might buy as a fear of what might happen to his federally regulated firm if it did not cough up handsomely. Eventually Spater arranged to issue...
That presence is palpable throughout the sprawling terra cotta studio he built in the first flush of Snow White's astounding success in 1937. Until this spring, his office in the animation building at the corner of Mickey Boulevard and Dopey Drive was left exactly as it was the day he died. In April, it was dismantled and painstakingly reconstructed at Disneyland-the notes where he left them on the low black desk, the scripts he was reading tucked neatly in the rack behind. Disney executives reverentially continue to invoke Walt's philosophy; often in discussing projects...
Midget. Running through all this are the glories and disasters of the Ruppert Mundys of Port Ruppert, N.J. Smith recalls the Mundys' history, complete with scores from their games with such teams as the Kakoola Reapers, the Acedama Butchers and the Terra Incognita Rustlers. Anyone familiar with the 4-F players of wartime baseball will sympathize with the 1943 Mundys. Their roster of freaks and misfits includes a one-legged catcher; a 14-year-old second baseman; a midget pinch hitter, "a credit to his size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with...
...pictures are also general metaphors of the contrast between life and death. The luminous, dusty, Apollonian terra cottas and oranges of Great Wall of China equally convey a sense of exuberance, of heat and fruitfulness. The August Sea, 1971, one of a series of paintings that relate to his summers on the coast at Provincetown, Mass., is suffused with a literally oceanic peace: the spreading field of blue, Mallarme's azure, the color of space and of openness, dapple with swift strokes of green, with a black line rising through it like the faintly swaying mast of a ship...
...Terra Trema, 1948 Visconti film. Mather House dining hall, 8, March...