Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably be the writer who suddenly becomes aware that Mickey Mantle is not the Joe DiMaggio of the future, but the Mantle of today, a fine ball player who is as much a threat and clutch hitter as Joe ever...
Under close examination, the reporting of the Stockholm papers proved to bear just about as much relation to reality as a Mickey Spillane novel. The Swedish Foreign Office at midweek denied that any Swedes had been manhandled. The city hall incident fell apart when Officer Hans Melin, a Swedish policeman assigned to Margaret's party during her visit, testified that the U.S. Secret Service men had not brandished a pistol and had not forbidden anyone to enter. Said Melin: "The American police officer was not armed on the occasion. I myself...
Assistant D.A. Anthony J. Liebler, who opened war last week on the big city's more expensive call girls (fees: $50 to $500 a night), announced that the walls of Mickey's apartment were lined with photographs of female nudes. Hundreds of other pornographic pictures were tucked carefully into folders. Investigators also found the inevitable "little black book" and two pistols, one in the apartment, one in Mickey's blue Cadillac...
...Mickey, according to Liebler, had been hard up for funds to operate on the nightclub circuit, since he got only $200 a month from a trust fund and what he could needle from his parents. Unwilling to wait until he came into his inheritance, he had been earning champagne money by procuring ladies of the night for moneyed sports who had only to visit his apartment and inspect his catalogues to make their choice...
When the news got to Chicago. Mickey's father man-of-the-worlded the whole escapade. "Mickey," he said, "just likes good-looking girls." Sprung on $50,000 bail, Mickey took the same line. Miss Eder, he said, was his "steady girl." "I've been going with her for six months. We are not engaged. She is above reproach." As for the charges: just spite work by an 18-year-old girl who might consider that he had jilted...