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80 million a year from fantasy
Frank Rasky
Walt Disney's ears perked up, mouselike. I had just informed him he had once won a gold medal for me. "Oh?" he inquired, all attention. "How did that happen?" I told him it happened twenty years back at Oakwood Collegiate in Toronto. "I entered the school oratory contest," I said, “and my speech was all about you and Mickey Mouse. I can still remember my closing line." "Tell me. What was it?" "It was kind of corny," I said, "but I really meant it. My eulogy ended, 'And so, Walt Disney labored like a mountain -- and produced a mouse!' It won first prize. I've waited all these years to thank you and Mickey." Disney picked up a gold statue from his desk and his stubby, square-cut fingers fondly caressed it. "I've got twenty-nine of these Academy Awards," he said. "But this Oscar I treasure most of all. It was my first prize. Mickey won it for me back in 1932." [...]

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Title
Star Weekly (Weekly)
Source type Book
Published
Subject date 1964
Language en
Document type Interview
Media type text
Page count 8
Pages pp. 115-122

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Id 2183
Availability Purchasable
Inserted 2016-01-27