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...Send Mickey to Kabul...
...radio like a lullaby for the next week. "You may not have always agreed with me," he said, "but I gave it my all. I love this city, and I'm confident it will be in good hands with Mike Bloomberg." During the World Series, says Mickey Carroll of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute, "it was as if Giuliani were campaigning in your living room. You practically had to look over his shoulder to see the game...
...fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots at midnight. Oh, the Babe would have loved that one. So would Mickey. Over the PA system Sinatra started singing ?New York, New York? and you?d swear they were all going to meet at Toots Shors in the wee small hours...
Able to perform before they’re able to think for themselves, they capture our attention with almost morbid curiosity. They come to center stage through “Star Search,” Miss Teen USA pageants or even The Mickey Mouse Club. They are paraded, poked, prodded and preened by over-zealous manager-parents. They are subjected to intense media scrutiny, and we wonder, “When will they break?” They are the über-teeny-boppers—adolescent artists performing for a juvenile audience—and there?...
...first heard him on WHAT (a white man on a black station; it happened then) in the winter of 1956-57. So Hy is the insinuating commentary running under my memories of certain prime cuts: Shirley and Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll," Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," Fats Domino's "I'm in Love Again," Lee Andrews and the Hearts' "Long Lonely Nights" (co-written, according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners...