Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor named Eddie Kane (Jack Haley), brother of Winchell's secretary Patsy Kane (Patsy Kelly), who, when his sister gets him a radio audition, is so terrified of the microphone that he cannot make a sound. To cure himself of his psychosis, Eddie tries singing into a "dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed as "radio's phantom troubadour." Thereafter, Wake Up and Live consists of an elaborately braided narrative in which the main strands are Bernie...
...told you so!" shouted Pastor's promoter, James J. Johnston, who had promised to explode the box-office prestige of his rival Promoter Mike Jacobs' Joe Louis. "Louis is a terrific hitter but he's not a great fighter. He can't hit a moving target. Pastor didn't fight him because he followed instructions to keep moving and keep out of Louis...
...bright with its private lighting system, and elsewhere in the Loop store lights and advertising signs glowed through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, the bold boss who had called the strike. Long-time business agent for a Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors...
Meanwhile, TIME, Inc. was launching LIFE from Manhattan as a picture weekly. Conferring with LIFE'S editors, Mike Cowles saw no reason why Look should not find a lower, broader field as a picture monthly. He put up $300.000 of his own and his brother's money to find out if he was right. Friends like Fred Bohen came in for $200,000 more. In spite of his big circulation plans (400.000 first issue). Publisher Cowles announced that, for the present, Look would solicit no advertising. To tradepapers he announced that Look would have "reader interest for yourself...
McGill still has the best players from its crack team of last season, and a few left from the truly famous 1934 six. Mike Moiklejohn is still there, one of the outstanding defensemen in amateur hockey in Canada, and Gordie Crutchfield and Paul Pidcock are sinking many, many goals in the nets of their luckless American opponents...