Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excited murmuring filled the courtroom. The point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...
...lineup for the season was Row, Kathn Smith, number two ear Henry Gardiner, three Ronald Dick, four, William P. Wodd, five, Walter Aikman, six, Erie Osborne, seven Mike Moras, stroke Oliver Scholle, and coxswain, Joshus Twilly
...thought that U.S. readers were getting "busier & busier" all the time. What they needed in the way of a weekly news report, he decided, was something brief and handy to snatch up in their spare moments "on the bus or in the beauty parlor." Last week "Mike" Cowles gave them a new, 64-page magazine of "news, pictures [19 pages] and predictions" no bigger than a man's hand. Name: Quick. Price...
...first issue of Mike Cowles's tiny (4 by 6 in.) magazine had a picture of Ingrid Bergman on the yellow-and-black cover, as she might appear through a telescope focused on Stromboli. The longest story in the magazine was five sentences; most were told in one sentence that was merely a paraphrase of a headline. There were 25 departments (Science, Sports, Male & Female, Fashions, etc.). Among the biggest departments (four pages) was "Quick Predicts," a kind of Kiplinger letter in monosyllables...
...smoother vehicle than the one they started rolling in Atlantic City, but it is still built along the same lines. It would be even better with tightening. The boys kid the orchestra, imitate each other, pour water on people's cigars, whisper secrets, shout non sequiturs at the mike, fight for its possession, spoil each other's jokes, order the customers to laugh, discuss them cattily when they don't-and altogether are apt to ramble on for two hours or more without a break. "We know how we're gonna get on," says Jerry...