Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bitter Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...
...least he did at the NCAA's last year. But if he can't push himself to that speed or better this weekend, he'll be pushed out of competition. Bob Clemens of Illinois, Bob Van Heyde and Bon Ledger of Ohio State, and Mike Delaney from the U. of Michigan can all shade...
...Mike World: House Committee ;Junior Usher; Varsity Tennis; Varsity Squash, Captain; House Sports...
...drought and a strike in the mine, life is hard, and bears little promise of getting better. Fanny Warrener is a milliner from Sydney with a good head and heart and a better body. She has left a philandering husband, but in Gerindery she falls in love with Mike Lambert, a newspaperman who takes a drop too much and whose best jobs are all behind him. Fanny and Mike are good people, but their open affair enrages the bluenoses, and makes more than one dissatisfied man hope that Fanny isn't just a one-man woman. Meanwhile, Mike values...
...saloons, their families do without, the merchants grumble. Only two men really enjoy the strike: George Morgan, a young miner spurred by idealism and an itch for leadership, and Owner Quint, who also owns just about everything else in Gerindery that pays a profit, including the paper that Mike Lambert runs...