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...Walt Disney, who made a mouse enter taining, last week made a mousetrap educational. To illustrate an atomic chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Choler | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Westward Ho the Wagons! (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...bawdy Volpone and Molière's sophisticated The Misanthrope. Other hits: Sean O'Casey's rollicking comedy, Purple Dust, scheduled "indefinitely" at the Cherry Lane, a converted stable; Shoestring '57, a 30-skit musical review; and Me, Candido, an original drama by Walt Anderson about the flight of Puerto Rican immigrants in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bargain-Basement Theater | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...special category belongs to Walt Disney, whose film cartoons are the source of record material for almost every company in the field. In addition, there are a few classics that turn up repeatedly, e.g., Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and George Kleinsinger's Tubby the Tuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kidisks, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Walt Stahura placed in the top eleven in four different categories of Ivy League statistics, it was announced yesterday. John Simourian placed in three groups, while Matt Botsford figured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stahura Wins Four Ivy League Places | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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