Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday afternoon the squad scrimmaged against a hastily-assembled quintet that included pre-war Varsity luminaries Hugh Hyde, "Bunks" Burditt and Mike Keene, (captain of the '44-'45 Varsity...
Lights out since last June flashed last week in Cambridge. From Mass Avenue to Mem Drive, from Mike's Club to Harry's Arcade Spa, the news was spreading. Pinball is back! Despite Mickey Sullivan's staunchest efforts for the opposition, the game of the flashing lights and tinkling bells is legal again. The State Supreme Court has said so. And, immoral or not, pinball is here to stay...
...C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, led by Communist-line Mike Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial...
Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and John, more journalistically adventurous than their father, have spread the Cowles empire into the Minneapolis field, into five radio stations, a feature syndicate, Look magazine...
...have sent secret missions to Washington, both have consulted with famed atom-expert Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each has enough "technical advisers" to set up a Hollywood branch of the Nuclear Physicists' Club, although there is little new which the scientists can disclose. Tension has mounted: customers at Mike Romanoff's posh eatery now talk in whispers instead of in the regulation Hollywood yell. Dark diplomacy is hinted...