Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any U.S. family with a loved one in service, the Joseph Riedwigs of Monroe, Wis. wanted their Mickey home. He had been mustered into the Army in 1943, had well over two years of conscientious service to his country, enough for 32 discharge points, although he never got overseas. The Riedwigs wrote to the War Department, but to no purpose...
...Foch), looking for employment in London, finds herself eagerly - ah, too eagerly - employed as secretary to a re spectable-looking old lady (Dame May Whitty). It soon appears that she has been hired as a full-time victim in a family of determined killers. Kept on a diet of Mickey Finns in the locked room of a lonely, cliffbound house with a dizzying view of the sea, she has every reason to feel insecure...
Jack and the Beanstalk: with Mickey Mouse as Jack, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as narrators...
These unfortunate, though timely, lapses from form may, or may not, constitute a "jinx." They are exceptions to the scores of sports figures who have found TIME'S cover no handicap (e.g., Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Helen Wills, "Red" Grange, "Bobby" Jones, Mickey Cochrane, Yachtsman Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, Bullfighter Juan Belmonte). It is worth noting, however, that TIME took no chances with its first sports cover: Horseman Stephan ("Laddie") Sanford (March 31, 1923). His horse (Sergeant Murphy) had already won the Grand National before the cover appeared...
Married. Artie Shaw, 35, bandleader; ex-husband of Cinemactress Lana Turner; and Ava Gardner, 21, starlet, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Hollywood...