Word: walt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disneyland, the gigantic amusement park in Anaheim, Calif., scheduled to open in mid-July, Walt Disney will have a theater for a 360° screen, which he confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at it; standing on a platform in the middle of a circular theater, the viewer watched a 15-minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense...
DAVY CROCKETT BATTLE between Walt Disney and Baltimore's Davy Crockett Enterprises over the right to use the magic name ( TIME, May 23) has been settled. After filing counter lawsuits and promising a bitter court fight, both sides will sign a master cross-licensing agreement that will let both lease the trademark to manufacturers and split the profits...
...with intermissions for advertising, NBC's first three-hour Spectacular. NBC has also paid $250,000, or a quarter of the movie production cost, for one-time telecast rights to another new Korda film. The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison. British film executives, taking a tip from Walt Disney's successful Disneyland, believe that a TV showing of a film stimulates movie attendance...
Answer: The Bible. It has brought the light in my darkness and has been a continued inspiration in my life. Shakespeare and Walt Whtiman's Poems would come second and third...
...wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe and the Earls of Oxford, Derby, Rutland...