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"   Walt Disney&amp;#039;s Pinocchio first appeared in Good Housekeeping in 1939. Disney, as was typical in his decade of work for the magazine, told the story part in cartoon, part in his jaunty prose or verse. &amp;quot;Now,&amp;quot; Disney wrote, as Geppetto was touching up Pinocchio, &amp;quot;The weary old fellow put his tools away and surveyed his newest handiwork. The puppet was jointed and strung; all that remained was to paint the wooden face.&amp;quot;  Pinocchio hit movie theaters the following year, in 1940. Today, December 5, is Walt Disney&amp;#039;s birthday. The great animator contributed to Good Housekeeping from 1934 to 1944. His first piece, appearing in April of 1934, was a 14-line rhyming poem titled &amp;quot;The Grasshopper and the Ants,&amp;quot; an adaptation from Aesop&amp;#039;s Fables that Walt Disney Productions had, in February of that year, brought to theaters as an animated film.  &amp;quot;The Grasshopper and the Ants&amp;quot; animation ran as a Silly Symphony, the series of cartoon shorts that Walt Disney was producing at the time. Many of Disney&amp;#039;s pieces for Good Housekeeping were one- or two-page versions of these short films.    Many of his pieces featured characters we still know today. In May and July of 1935, Mickey Mouse frolicked in cartoon and in text. In May 1939, Goofy appeared with a boatload of fish at the bottom of page 84. My favorite Disney piece ran in August 1943, some 20 months after the U.S. entered World War II, and features Donald Duck. On guard at an air raid siren, Donald is dead asleep. He jumps awake when a bee flies past, thinking, &amp;quot;the buzzing sound is a propeller going &amp;#039;round&amp;quot;\u2014that his post is the target of enemy warplanes. Donald panics. He fires the cannon. It strikes and destroys the outsize siren, from which Donald is now foolishly dangling by his earphones. &amp;quot;Next time,&amp;quot; the caption reads, &amp;quot;He vows he&amp;#039;ll keep awake.&amp;quot;  For more about Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s history, please see the magazine&amp;#039;s timeline and archive of covers. Or learn about Good Housekeeping in person by signing up for a tour of the Research Institute. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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