Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things looked up for a while in the late '203, when Connie fielded such fine competitors as Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove and Al Simmons on first-division teams...
...Spike belonged to the Navy, he also found time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...
...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...
...Long Wait (Parklane; United Artists). Mickey Spillane is not a writer to duck the vital issues. The first movie made from one of his mysteries, I, The Jury (TIME, Aug. 7), was a warning to psychoanalysts to stay out of the numbers racket. The second is apparently an ad for amnesia...
...often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created-well below the occasional Henry Jamesian thrillers turned out by such serious writers as Marghanita Laski (see below], but several steps above the Mickey Spillane gutter. A batch of new novels demonstrates the current suspense range from simple, old-fashioned sex fiends to complex, introverted drawing-room villains...