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Bollenbach, 54, is one of the sharpest pencils in corporate America, a veteran hotelier who joined Hilton last year after a stint at Walt Disney Co., where he helped engineer the Mouse's $19 billion buyout of Capital Cities/ABC. Araskog, 65, has lots of starch in his sheets. A West Pointer who once served in the National Security Agency, he has a perfect record in fending off corporate raiders...
Dickey was never enrolled in the obedience school of political correctness. He came from an earlier time, and anyway, his profoundly masculine imagination had a luminous, incorruptible autonomy. You may pick up traces of Walt Whitman or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings...
DIED. ADRIANA CASELOTTI, 80, the voice of Snow White; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The teenager edged out 150 others to be the voice Walt Disney chose as the sweetly beguiling heroine of his 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...ANGELES: Adriana Caselotti never forgot that she was Snow White. As the ethereal voice behind Walt Disney's 1934 cartoon embodiment of wide-eyed virtue, Caselotti placed a wishing well in her front yard and a recording of "I'm Wishing" on her telephone answering machine. The 80-year-old singer, who died at home Sunday after a battle with cancer, "was just that wonderful, cheery, little lady," said Roy Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney. Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life...
...favorite story is about the 1995 excursion to China that Bill and Melinda organized for seven couples. "For part of the trip we stayed on a ship in the Yangtze with five decks that normally accommodates hundreds of people," he says with the glee of a kid describing Walt Disney World. "Each evening Melinda arranged different activities." There was karaoke singing in the ship's ballroom, performances of quickie versions of Shakespeare plays, "and a trivia quiz on such things as how many meals we'd eaten, with prizes that Melinda and Bill handed out." When relaxed, Buffett says, Gates...