Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Features (whose representative Winkler was for years), Opera Mundi differed from U.S. syndicates in two respects: It also acted as a literary agency and publisher of magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including a Mickey Mouse weekly with a circulation of over 400,000; Prèsse-Publicité, sort of a French combination of Editor & Publisher and Printer's Ink. Reason for these successes, says Winkler, was his adoption of U.S. editorial and advertising techniques rather than the venal methods of the kept...
...Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious consideration as a new comedy team: Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney....Back from summer barnstorming, Luise Rainer emoted to Manhattan reporters: "I saw cows . . . and then I knew that all my life I had been longing to see cows with bells around their necks again...
...occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
...hard that most of her $25,750-a-year allowance is reported spent within six months. ≤≤ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy" mayor of Newburyport, Mass., was sentenced to nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter...
Surly, sandy-haired Mickey Orton, who has frequently been accused of Communist sympathies, had the support of few labor leaders last week. Best he could produce was a telegram from Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's chief, who was in the midst of a deportation hearing on charges of being a Communist himself. Bridges wired "wholehearted support." The 0PM summoned ranting Mickey Orton to Washington. How much it would take to break the log jam in the Northwest was a matter of speculation, but there were indications that Mr. Roosevelt was ready to use whatever force it took...