Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York cafe society likes them bar-worthy and it likes them rich. Fat little 22-year-old Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke qualifies on both counts. Mickey loves nightclubs, he is listed in the Social Register, and his father, Oleomargarine Magnate John Faris Jelke. of Chicago, has millions stashed away; Mickey himself is due to inherit a fortune when...
Last week Mickey's social career suffered a slight interruption. Detectives burst into his East Side apartment, found him with a pretty, blonde model named Sylvia Eder, hauled both of them off to jail, and charged Mickey with being a "common pimp...
Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...
...clear and witty as usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one fatal crack--an inability to appreciate Pogo. This sort of thing has been written in the past about Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, and Li'l Abner. It is hardly an exciting theme, but Updike treats it quite as well as anyone has in the past. Far better is his theme-poem on the crew race at Yale in which a pleasing metre manages to overcome a dull subject...
...depression years. Some other standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break even. Apparently, they are optimistic, for another issue is scheduled for fall. The idea is a good one; with a little more dare,, the second collection should...