Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the game, the young giant laced and unlaced his size 13 gym shoes until they were tied just right. He shrugged off sportwriters' questions about his scoring intentions that night, concentrated on taping on a pair of eyeglasses that gave him a Harold Lloyd look. Then George ("Mike") Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers, the hottest player in pro basketball this season, straightened up to his full 6 ft. 10 in. and answered the reporters: "This is just another game...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
...Mike was a man full of surprises. When he ran against oldtime G.O.P. Sheriff Martin Pratt last November (slogan: "A G.I. Who Believes in Democracy"), he said he was 30, had played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real...
After he watched for a while, Mike went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right & left in his county bailiwick on Portland's fringes...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...