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...despite Mickey's semi-retirement, his ears are still one of the most famous cultural icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has posed for photographs with every U.S. President since Harry Truman, save one (Lyndon Johnson never visited a Disney theme park). Disney claims that Mickey had a 98% awareness rate among children between ages 3-11 worldwide. Mouse-related merchandise sales have declined from their 1997 high, but they still make up about 40% of the company's consumer products revenue. Mickey returned to the big screen for a cameo in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
EVERYWHERE J.C. Leyendecker Grab a copy of this new release by Abrams about one of the 20th century's most widely praised American fashion illustrators, featuring his glamorous original paintings, ads and magazine covers...
MUSEUMS Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Santa Isabel, 52 (34-91-774-1000; museoreinasofia.es). The permanent collection is made up of Spanish art from the 20th century, including Picasso's Guernica...
...tuberculosis survivors watched their stories told on film for the first time yesterday evening in Harvard Hall at a test screening of a documentary about the 20th-century tuberculosis epidemic...
...early and vote often," dates back to the election that followed the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Finger-pointing about who was to blame for the fire and its spread raised fears about electoral hanky-panky and led some voters to cast more than one ballot. In the early 20th century, a compromised police force and city administration allowed organized crime to thrive. Even the city's first commissioner of public welfare, a woman named Louise Rowe, had to resign within a year of her appointment in 1915 after running a kickback scheme in the welfare department...