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66. Me: Art School Dropout, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts...

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 11:34 PM

Jan 2012

...I was told by one of my instructors, circa 1974, that Walt Disney was expelled from the school for often showing up intoxicated.

Don't really know if it's true. But he did go there.

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