Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week disaster struck. Mike Kaplan, a reporter for the trade paper Variety, after checking Nugent's credentials at the British consulate, headlined the bad news. The consulate's information officer had reported that Nugent was not listed in either Debrett's or Burke's Peerage...
...first singles Ben Heckscher defeated sophomore Oliver Stafford 15-9, 6-15, 15-9, 15-12. In the second position Cal Place had difficulty handling the crushing service of Mike Wood, but managed to pull out a 15-11, 4-15, 18-14, 18-14 victory...
Bypassed Phantoms. The gas bill's supporters, anxious to get it passed and rid gas producers of federal supervision, were aghast. The contribution to Case, suggested Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, was a "dead cat" planted by an opponent of the bill so as to cast suspicion on all Senators voting for the measure. And, snapped Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, Case had better be ready to detail his charges "if he expects to stay in public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote...
...only faint endorsement to all his party's presidential candidates, from Roosevelt to Stevenson, waited until the last stages of the 1948 campaign before giving a hesitant blessing to Harry Truman (his support, nevertheless, is credited with swinging Ohio to Truman by a breathtaking 7,000 votes). Both Mike DiSalle and Tom Burke got a limp pat on the back from the governor in their unsuccessful campaigns for the Senate. Lausche's refusal to back "Jumping Joe" Ferguson and his openly expressed admiration of Bob Taft in their 1950 race won the governor the undying hatred of many...
Then the reporter got hold of the mike again and told us that the Assistant to the District Attorney was here because the District Attorney was busy in the penitentiary. The District Attorney's assistant explained that he had been sent because he was single, so the reporter grabbed the mike and introduced a fellow from the Boston Executives' Council who said he was very sorry that the President of the Chamber of Commerce hadn't been able to make it. He mentioned hopefully that he had a friend who had made three million dollars printing a magazine, and then...