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...Hollywood last summer Walt Disney, restless creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many another cinanimal, was playing mental tiddlywinks with the idea of putting together a monthly animated-cartoon digest, roughly analogous in the motion-picture field to the spectacularly successful Reader's Digest...
...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
...pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...
Last week his bell-ringing speech, with its realistic mixture of self-interest and global thinking, won applause in the hardened Senate, and praise from men who had stood on both sides of the old debate. Speechmaker and applause were one more proof that the old cartoon figure labeled "Isolationist," which some pundits are still busy beating to death, had long since died of natural causes...
...soldier in the Middle East drew a cartoon for the Stars & Stripes. We will tell you what the cartoon portrayed. John L. Lewis, in miner's dress, was throwing dirt with a coal shovel upon the freshly marked grave of some kid in North Africa. . . . God knows it expressed the attitude of the overwhelming majority of soldiers in this and any other theater...