Word: mike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times-Herald" ¶ General Manager William C. Shelton, 55, also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson, 59, a Russian-born, Hearst-trained veteran who came from Boston on temporary assignment to the Times-Herald in 1931, and stayed on. ¶ Advertising Director Edmund F. Jewell, 52, a former publisher...
...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...
That opened up a new world to Mike. For the first time he read the sourdough sagas of Jack London and Robert Service, and learned of a Klondike more glittering than his own. At first he carefully distinguished between his own achievements and the sourdough sagas, recited with a will The Cremation of Sam McGee and The Shooting of Dan McGrew...
...Good Old Days. In time, as his fame spread, he spoke to wide-eyed audiences from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles. As he became a showman, the Service sagas became Mike's own: he had actually witnessed the shooting of Dan. Last week, Klondike Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember...
...Married. Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry F. Gerguson), sixtyish, bugle-nosed, professional phony (he has claimed to be the assassin of Rasputin, a son of Victorian Prime Minister Gladstone, a cousin of Czar Nicholas), now a Beverly Hills restaurateur, who gave his age as 48; and Gloria Lister, 24, his ex-secretary; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...