Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancied himself as a contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952, will have to fight to hold his Senate seat. His opponent in the Democratic primary: former Governor Roy Turner, millionaire oil & cattleman, who will have the quiet support of Kerr's Democratic colleague in the Senate, Mike Monroney...
After Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles folded pocket-size Quick last year, he quickly found a buyer for the magazine. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Publisher Walter Annenberg bought the title from Cowles for a reported $250,000, put out his own biweekly Quick in a larger format (TIME, July 20). Annenberg, who also publishes Seventeen, Daily Racing Form and Morning Telegraph, hoped to succeed where Mike Cowles failed by using his Inquirer gravure presses, selling no subscriptions or ads and sticking to newsstand sales. He estimated he could break even with 1,000,000 circulation. Last week Annenberg admitted defeat...
...after day, he hung over the delighted engineers asking endless questions about the mysteries of sound, about mike placement, about the volume indicator. He practiced tirelessly to modulate his voice; he haunted the continuity department and the record library. He studied sound effects. Within a few months, with the help of a lean ABC staff writer named Jim Moser, he started a weekly show of his own called One Out of Seven. Webb (who got $8 extra pay) was the cast: he dramatized the big news story of the week by standing before three microphones and doing his best...
...disappeared),Webb asked why. He watched stage carpenters make golden oak out of cheap pine sets with yellow paint and combs. He patiently learned about studio lights (brutes, seniors, juniors and inky-dinks, in order of their size), and the tricks of lighting eyes and burning out mike shadows...
...more details. Checking with state police, the Bulletin quickly found out that the story was not true. It had been printed lightheartedly the day before by a Boston columnist, was probably read by a prankster, who phoned it into the Bulletin as straight news. But Bulletin Managing Editor Mike Ogden had no regrets. Said he: "My own feeling is that if a story can be as funny as this, the A.P. ought to go in for this sort of thing more often−always, of course, with due [printed] safeguards...