Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dummies & the Mob. Ostensibly, Continental was bought by Arthur ("Mickey") McBride for his son Edward, now a law student in Miami University. But son Edward proved to know nothing about the business. Mickey McBride is the multimillionaire who owns the Cleveland Browns football team. But, said the committee, Continental. is not controlled by Mickey McBride, either. It is controlled by "the gangsters who constitute the Capone syndicate...
...Volpone, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Meanwhile, half the company's shorts will feature a nearsighted bumbler named Mr. Magoo. Little Gerald's talents are too specialized for many other stories, but in its own way, his "Boing!" may prove as resounding as the first peep out of Mickey Mouse...
...sending the Republicans' top man "Ike" to Europe, and with Bushman the educated ape dead, Mr. Truman should have clear sailing for another four years in office. However, in four or five years the Democrats should have Mickey Cohen ready to replace Truman...
...those ignorant, stupid, opinionated and sometimes traitorous stuffed shirts who for years have shaped our foreign policy towards Asia, it was just the Mickey Finn the bartender ordered. For millions of other folk who do not read TIME but will be informed by those who do, I hope it is the political prelude to a deluge which will sweep these sub-mediocrities from office come 1952. That is, if we Americans are still around by then...
...first time, televiewers had a look this week at Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Goofy and other characters in the enchanted animal kingdom created during the past twelve years by Walt Disney. The Christmas Day offering was put together by sponsor Coca-Cola in a $150,000 package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney...