Word: mika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph '61 G 18 5.10 195 Orange, Conn. 64 Cummings, Bruce '59 G 18 6.1 194 Branchville, N.J. 65 Pisacane, Frank '60 G 20 5.10 186 Shelton, Conn. 68 Kelly, Ray '59 G 20 5.11 199 Archbald, Pa. 71 Troychak, Dennis '59 T 21 6.2 208 Monessen, Pa. 72 Mika, John '60 T 20 6.3 231 Bethlehem, Pa. 73 Smith, Edgar '59 T 20 6.3 202 Doylestown, Pa. 74 Wolkowitz, Dick '60 T 20 5.11 220 Vineland, N.J. 76 Abraham, Louis '59 T 19 6.3 216 Hackensack, N.J. 77 Hordubay, Joseph '59 T 20 6.1 199 Windber, Pa. 78 Stubblebine...
...ETRUSCAN, by Mika Waltari (381 pp.; Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage...
MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...
...Egyptian (20th Century-Fox), based on Mika Waltari's bestselling novel of Egypt in the 14th century B.C., is described in studio releases as a "$5,000,000 CinemaScope De Luxe Color picturization . . . with 67 major sets, seven stars, two dozen featured players, 87 other speaking roles and over 5,000 extras." Authenticity is rampant in every scene. All 5,000 extras, for instance, have brown eyes, because the research department read somewhere that "there were no blue-eyed Egyptians in the 14th century B.C." Furthermore, the "5,000,000 objects" of Egyptian antiquity in the film were imported...
...Mika Waltari, one of the most successful of practicing historical novelists (The Egyptian, The Wanderer), has taken this most crucial of all sieges as the subject of hs new book. It is both a lush and a tricky subject, combining the excitement of a historic military occasion with the far-reaching complications of the death of a great Christian state. It is a tribute to Waltari that he succeeds not only in blending the glamour and the disaster of the event but also works in the sort of love story on which, as every historical novelist knows, the fate both...