Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hillbilly singer told me that was 'resonance' and that the women would go for it. I've let it go ever since. That's the sex in my voice." He also has a cute routine: he comes down into his radio audience with a portable mike. First he parks his gum with someone in the front row and retrieves it at the end of the hour, which is good for big laughs both times. Then he perches coyly on ladies' laps to croon his songs. Afterwards he plants a kiss on the prettiest girl...
WCOP, "1150 on your radio dial," arrived in Harvard Square yesterday armed with a station-wagon, two stooges, a mike, and a wire recorder. They had come speaking the answer to this cryptic query: "If the Communists should gain control of France and Italy, do you think the United States should go on with its aid to these countries...
...string of bananas girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time she came to the line, "Our love affair was too hot not to cool down," the French found Lena's English perfectly translatable. And when...
...sound effecters in radio's pioneer days had a terrible time trying to make a "noise like a frying egg. They tried everything, go the story goes, from crumpling Cellophane to popping corn. At last someone held a mike close to a sizzling skille-ful of frying eggs. That...
...another quarterback. Weeks ago, the West Coast boys began beating drums for a U.C.L.A. end, Tom Fears. When Fears was injured, the drums suddenly stopped throbbing. It was almost too late in the season to proclaim another hero, but U.C.L.A. is now doing its manful best to boost Guard Mike Dimitro. The surest West Coast bet is another end, Southern California's 195-lb. Paul Cleary. Coach