Word: walts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Cornell medley, A Harvard medley, A new Ivy League medley, A Walt Disney Fantasy, A special scoring of "The Star Spangled Banner" which we use at games and appropriate situations; Two concert arrangements, one of famous popular songs by Harvard alumni and a brief setting of "All the Things You Are" by Kern, and Two original marches...
...tackle positions, Bill Beattie and Walt Meincke should participate in most of the action today. Beattie, who was second string tackle last year, and Meincke, a converted center, both tip the scales at about 200 pounds...
...greatest American success has been Circarama. This Walt Disney movie (not cartoons) takes viewers on a 20-minute color tour of the U. S. A., an uninterrupted panoramic scene in a complete circle. The spectators stand inside the circle, look up, and rotate their heads so as not to miss any of the breath-taking trip from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate. Excellent propaganda, even for Americans...
Resting rock-like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...