Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walt Hewlett, Harvard's leading on-trant the last two years, ran well of the pace and decided to drop out at the 21-mile mark "As long as I wasn't going anywhere," Hwelett said, "I didn't want to risk an injury by continuing after I got tried...
Baker doubles in the two-mile, which he ran in 9:05.5 this winter, but he might have to give way in this event to Walt Hewlett, the two-time cross-country all-American who stayed out of indoor competition this winter. Hewlett was running well during the Puerto Rico trip and might regain the form that made him two-mile champion last year...
...sure, Walt stopped drawing his own cartoons in 1928, and has not piped the voice of Mickey Mouse on a sound track in years. He has even cut his workday from 14 hours to ten. But his calendar for last week included 30 conferences at his production lot in Burbank or at his research-and-development facility in Glendale, a back-to-backbreaking schedule with time out only to sip Sanka poured from his silver carafe...
King Bee. The official corporate leader of all this activity is Walt's brother Roy, 72, who is president and board chairman of Disney Productions. Walt calls himself the executive producer, "the little bee who goes from one area to another, gathering pollen and sort of stimulating everybody." Obviously he is the head bee. One ex-Disney executive notes that, for all its 3,300 employees, the corporation is still a one-man show. "Everything in that plant goes through Walt and with his blessing. The king is king, as far as he's concerned. He okays ideas...
Still, the central idea of Walt Disney Productions and its unerring feel for the market have come from no one but Walt. His credo is that "you can't live on things made for children-or for critics. I've never made films for either of them. Disneyland is not for children. I don't play down." Or up. "I've always had a nightmare," he says. "I dream that one of my pictures has ended up in an art theater, and I wake up shaking." The audience he aims at is "honest adults." In short...