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sitting atop as fabulous a career as Hollywood ever produced. “The Mouse” and “the Duck,” as he refers to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, have become as much a part of Ameri¬ can literature as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. That Disney is a recog¬ nized creative geniixs is an accepted land in Anaheim, Cal., 15 minutes’ driving time from metropolitan Los Angeles. Disney bought the land last May. On 60 acres of it he will build, for $9,000,000, what will undoubtedly be the most magnificent amusement park ever constructed in this or any other country. (The other 100 acres Illustrations on these pages and the following page copyright b.v Walt Disney Productions. Panoramic sketch of Disneyland, most ambitious project of its kind in world. fact. That he is also a shrewd (and amiable) realist is something not gen¬ erally known outside Hollywood. What finally prompted Disney to plunge into television with a weekly hour-long program of his own was not the money involved (actually, he will lose money on the show itself) but the existence of 160 barren acres of < Frontier Land: two views of another of the park's four sections. Their names will be a framework for TV shows. will become a picnic-parking area.) By an odd coincidence, both the amusement park and the TV show will be called “Disneyland.” By another odd coincidence, both the amusement park and the TV show will be divided into four parts; Fantasy Land, Adven¬ ture Land, Frontier Land and The World of Tomorrow. The amusement park will be opened to the public in July 1955, just nine months after the television show goes on the air. “By that time,” a Disney aide muses.