Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Managing Editor Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark of Hearst's Chicago Herald-American saw a way to combine a good deed and a good story. He got his labor editor to talk to big Mike Sexton, boss of the local A.F.L. Carpenters Union. Mike pulled on an old khaki jacket and went out to build the house himself-his first carpentry job in 32 years. Other unions contributed labor while builders supplied materials. This week, a $17,000 free Cape Cod-style house for Roberta was rising out of the ashes...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...
...backstroke, the Eli's boast Mike Pettee, consistent winner and one of the East's speediest men in the event. And Pettee has himself been beaten by teammate Al Ratkietwich. From the Yale point of view this race should be Harvard is now tied for third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. It's not going any higher...
...Mike Siner led in conspicuousness of poster area by suspending his name in foot square letters from the ceiling of the Union lobby and writing his name with green paint on the snow outside. "Colonel" Bill Warner issued a directive ordering "all personnel to abstain from study and classes on the weekend in question," promising "severe reprimands to the College Administration if they interfered...
Peter Van Slyck, who had a hard time taking his Princeton player, will oppose Henry Foster in the number one match. Mike McLanahan will match his all round game with Hugh Foster's playing. Peter Vought, a ranking intercollegiate squash player, will oppose Captain Jim McKittrick...