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...Claus. Disney threw a big party for the mouse's 75th birthday, so this year's festivities will be comparatively subdued. But TIME has been following the adorable mouse since the beginning, and 80 years is still a big number to us. (Read TIME's 1937 cover story on Walt Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

Mickey's story, however, starts with a rabbit. Disney Brothers Studio was just another cog in Universal Pictures' animation machine when, in 1927, Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With his round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. When Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employeees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Mickey Mouse shorts appeared within a matter of months - including Plane Crazy, a short that predated Steamboat Willie in which Mickey plays a rodent Charles Lindbergh. The mouse was a national fad by the end of the year, and it wasn't long before the real genius of Walt Disney kicked in: marketing. Walt quickly started up a line of Mickey merchandise, and within two years the Mickey Mouse Club, a fan club for children, was up and running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

Adams returned to his alma mater last night for the second time since 2007 to discuss his setting to music of Walt Whitman’s poem “The Wound Dresser,” in the company of two of Harvard’s most distinguished professors: University Present Drew G. Faust and English professor Helen Vendler...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Composer Talks Music with Panel | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry 2 West Elm faceted table lamp with white resin base and cotton shade ($149; westelm.com 3 Louis Vuitton Into the Curl cuff ($1,180; louisvuitton.com 4 Bottega Veneta dark purple pleated goatskin shopper ($2,980; bottegaveneta.com 5 Roger Vivier Navette black alligator faceted evening clutch ($5,200; Roger Vivier NY, 212-861-5371) 6 Burberry metal necklace with copper overlay ($1,995; burberry.com 7 Frank Gehry for Tiffany & Co. rock vase in bone china ($175; 800-526-0649) 8 Fredrikson Stallard King Bonk fiberglass armchair (price on request; David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculptural Style | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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