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...Angeles, the American Broadcasting Co. and Walt Disney studios signed a long-term contract. First result will be a series of 26 hour-long TV shows this fall, combining live action and cartoon technique3 in a program "based on adventure, variety, romance and comedy...
...Cinemaker Walt Disney, already the winner of 18 Oscars, won four more for his documentaries Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, The Living Desert, and the cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom...
...Walt Disney's highland fling through an old Scots story; with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns (TIME...
...Hope of Walt Whitman. The idea of chronicling Sadakichi's wayward life and times began as a club gag. But Fowler took it seriously, and raked together the few known facts about this eccentric's eccentric. When he was not with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call...
...exists that Sadakichi heard a fairly powerful mating call from somewhere, for he married twice and fathered 13 children, one illegitimate. But his first love was poetry, and he always carried a testimonial to his early genius in the form of a tattered newspaper clipping of 1888. In it Walt Whitman said: "I have more hopes of Hartmann, more faith in him than in any of the boys." Few connoisseurs today would show such faith in Sadakichi's poems, e.g., the couplets that Biographer Fowler uses as chapter headings. Samples: "I made a bed of sun and sand / Beside...