Word: walt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local witch doctor, up to his innocent tricks. His usual voo had lost its do, and in the emergency, he had invoked, by making a few passes with needle and thread, the familiar spirit of that infinitely greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing the most...
...seen at least one of Disney's 657 films, most of which are dubbed in 14 languages. And one taste of a Disney picture makes millions of moviegoers cry for more. Disney takes pleasure-and enormous profit, of course -in gratifying this hunger. Thirty million 10? copies of Walt Disney Comic Books are bought in 26 countries every month, and 100 million copies of more expensive editions (from 25? to $2.95) have been bought since 1935. Songs from Disney pictures sell $250,000 worth of records and sheet music annually. Since 1933 more than $750 million worth of merchandise...
...Directions. Measured by his social impact, Walt Disney is one of the most influential men alive. He has pushed the bedtime stories of yesteryear, the myths that all former races of men teethed on, off the nursery shelf, or amalgamated them into a kind of mechanized folklore. It's Walt Disney's Snow White now, and Walt Disney's Cinderella. The 20th century has brought forth a new Mother Goose, or, rather, a Father Goose. The hand that rocks the cradle is Walt Disney's-and who can say what effect it is having...
Last week, moreover, there were four major pieces of evidence that Walt Disney is dramatically enlarging his sphere of influence. Items...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the WTest was really wild (TIME...