Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barring reporters from the trial of Minot ("Mickey") Jelke III, on charges of being a pimp, Manhattan Judge Francis Valente apparently expected to keep testimony from the sensational vice case out of the newspapers. The trial had not gone two days before Judge Valente had an ample opportunity to see how wrong he was in practice, if not in law. Elaborately shrouded in secrecy, the trial took on an importance it might never have had in open court. In Louisville, a panel of clergymen on radio debated whether the press should be allowed to cover the trial, decided that...
...case of Minot ("Mickey") Jelke III, 23, newsmen from papers all over the world had a story made for them. Jelke, a socialite heir to a multimillion dollar fortune, was accused of managing a circle of glamorous prostitutes who operated in Manhattan's glossiest nightspots and, for that matter, around the world (TIME, Feb. 2). This week, as the press warmed up for the first headline-making days of the trial, reporters got an unexpected and bitter piece of news...
...Unfortunate Milkman. Due to his connections with Mickey and Apples, Witness Genova worked steadily for years. But in 1947 Apples had a barroom fight with a milk truck driver and got his face badly chopped by a broken beer glass during the struggle. Genova was unwise enough to sympathize with his old pal, Apples. "This guy has got to go," Apples told him, "and I want somebody ... to take care of him." Genova refused...
...Gregory the Bandit's pals, Tommy Gleason, walked up to Mickey in front of a waterfront bar & grill. "They seemed to be on friendly terms, and it seemed like Gleason was going to pat him on the cheek, but he had a knife in his hand and he cut him in the throat. I was standing outside there. Bowers grabbed his throat and ran back inside the bar, and Gleason jumped in a cab and ran away." Bowers and some pals scrambled into a car and gave chase. "They lost him in traffic. They were looking for him high...
...just in time to make the Sunday tabloids) at an East Side hotel. She kept it up at the D.A.'s office. She bawled steadily and stridently for a full half-hour as she was arraigned as a material witness in the case against Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke, who is charged with being a procurer for well-heeled gents of café society...