Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about half past seven at night and the radios in the room were chatting blurrily as the scattered stations of the U.S. Army in China talked. Mickey, the boss of the station, was at the sets. His cronies lounged about the room-his helpers, Kelly and Dubuc; Doerksen, the Lockheed man who is lend-leased to the China Air Force, and Alex, the mournful, gregarious operator of the Russian station...
They are the only white men in the town and thoroughly isolated from their kind-but none so much as the boss. Mickey is a Navy man. He was a radioman, first class, on the Lexington two years ago when someone came around recruiting for the A.V.G.s. Mickey decided he would join Chennault...
Voice of Legend. His rasping, bellowing voice is part of the legend of the A.V.G. now. It sounded alarms and withdrawals all over China and Burma. And when the A.V.G. was disbanded it rose more raucously than ever before. Mickey put his back up against joining the Army. He had become indispensable, so the uproar he raised brought results. He was commissioned an ensign in the Navy, is still without an item of uniform except a Navy...
...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...
...Human Comedy (Jack Jenkins, Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Marsha Hunt; TIME, March...