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Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks...
...earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. will give visitors an armchair ride through a "narrated story of man's need to communicate" on its upper level; the lower level will have gadgets that visitors...
...poet's own generation cannot issue him a passport to immortality, even when it would like to. Robert Frost was no literary revolutionary, like Walt Whitman or T. S. Eliot. But he is more controlled and artful than Whitman, less narrowly contemporary than the early Eliot, wider-ranging than that fellow precisionist, Emily Dickinson. Some of these had strengths that were not his, as he had strengths that were not theirs. His own generation can only be sure that he belongs in high company...
...into business together while both were studying at Stanford University under famed Electrical Engineering Professor Frederick E. Terman. They set up their company in the shadow of Stanford to be near Terman and Stanford's vast research services. Their first sale of any consequence ($489.60) came when Walt Disney bought nine Hewlett-developed audio oscillators for the sound effects of Fantasia. "Bill and I did everything from design to sales in those days," Packard recalls. "I'm afraid our standards of quality weren't quite what they...
...Legend of Lobo. Walt Disney, who thinks that wolves are really nicer than people, tries to prove it by telling the story of a 150-lb. monster who terrorized New Mexico in the 1890s. Disney is sort of crying sheep, but the kids won't care...