Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mickey's coetanes are equally fond of him. It is no secret that between Master Rooney and Master Jackie Cooper (another virtuoso of swing) no love is lost. When Dead End Kids Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell got to Hollywood, both offered to fight Mickey immediately...
Their challenge was never honored though husky Mickey might easily take either of them...
...Alone, Mickey likes to run down to Santa Anita for the races on which he fancies himself quite an expert. There are indications that he has ambitions to acquire a stable. Whether he does or not, Mom will have something to say about...
Greying now, but still spry of step and wrinkleless of face, Mom keeps a close watch over Mickey's affairs...
...adores Mickey and Mickey adores Mom. She is very proud that Mickey takes her (instead of one of his pretty young things) to big Hollywood affairs like the Academy awards dinner (TIME, March 11). Of course, she knows his taking her does no harm to the legend of Mickey Rooney the typical American Boy. Mom welcomes any pretext to show admirers Mickey's baby clothes, his first shoes and rubbers, which she has kept carefully all these years. She also keeps carefully the half of all Mickey's earnings which (by California's Jackie Coogan law) goes...