Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood home life was having its usual ups & downs. After another spat with Martha Vickers, his third wife, quick-tempered Mickey Rooney, 30, huffed off to live with his mother for a while. After seven months of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, 18, and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, decided to try a separation test...
There were visiting celebrities, too--Johnny Pesky of the Red Sox and Mickey Harris of the Senators ("friends of the management"). Pesky gave a half-hour broadcast in which he mixed commentary on the Sox with praise of the new automobiles...
...late City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan, one of the most colorful men in Cambridge politics, also seemed to take exception to a King's attitude toward Harvard. But "Mickey the Dude," as he was called in his ward, was well-liked by many students and faculty members...
...good chance for publicity, he had his eyes blackened with charcoal by a student. Then he called over photographers from the press wire services and showed them his "eyes which were blackend by a Harvard student." The following day newspapers throughout the nation picked up the picture of Mickey Sullivan with "the blackeyes which rioting Harvard students inflicted...
However, somebody tipped the Council off that the statues were just plaster coated with bronze. Mickey's order never got to a vote, but it gave him good press publicity...