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...neither Commander Hughes's report nor that of the naval court-both of which called attention to the unmistakable deliberateness of the attack-was there any indication that the bombing of the Panay was a mistake of the sort which Minister Hirota seemed to imply. Nonetheless, since the Japanese apology fulfilled all the demands made by the U. S., Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain...
...privileged investigator could stay around for the six months it takes to complete a typical cartoon short, he would find it a highly efficient, if occasionally cockeyed, procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed...
...cartoonists organized a $15,000 corporation in 1922, after spending six months making their first feature, Little Red Riding Hood. A New York distributor was found and out came Jack the Giant Killer, Town Musicians of Bremen, Goldilocks and three others, among them Alice in Cartoonland, which was a sort of embryonic Snow White. But the distributor collapsed. So did Walt's corporation. In return for movies of their children, Kansas City mothers paid him enough money to get him to Hollywood, where there were the twin attractions of a booming film industry and a Brother Roy with...
...garden of St. Patrick's Church. The priest hired a promoter, one B. J. Clifford of Cleveland, and 25,000 people entered the contest. Said the Christian Century, best-edited U. S. Protestant weekly: "Not even a 'miraculous medal' can perform the miracle of transforming this sort of traffic into anything other than a disgrace to the church...
...they had an apparatus which would show, on a sort of artificial horizon, every object for a mile around, together with its distance and direction, ship captains nosing uneasily ahead through a fog would be much safer and happier. So far such a mariner's boon has not appeared. Yet it seems to be on the way, because the problem is simply one of technical ingenuity in applying principles already understood...