Mickey Mouse is now seven years old. And he stands as the one being in time or space who has reached man's estate at so tender an age.
No prattling child is this Mickey. No youngster who is just beginning to make his presence felt to those immediately around him. The stature of Mickey Mouse has something of the colossus about it. His influence extends around the globe.
On September 28 — this brain child of Walt Disney celebrated his seventh birthday. For all the things that have happened to Mickey, he might well be seventy. For all the wisdom he has expressed, he might well be as old as Methuselah.
At the age of seven, Mickey Mouse puts to shame all the child prodigies that have ever warmed fond parents' hearts. Infant chess masters and kids who make the grade at Harvard are a mere shadow of Mickey's renown. Mickey Mouse has had more honors showered upon him than many an international or historical hero.
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