Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia this week, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg, 45, of the Inquirer (circ. 643,985) announced a new venture in a new field. For a reported $250,000, he bought the title "Quick" from Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, who folded his pocket-size weekly last month (TIME, April 27). In mid-September, Annenberg will put on the newsstands a brand-new Quick-a Reader's Digest-sized fortnightly news-and-picture magazine with such contributors as Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin Canham and Radio's Martha (Meet the Press) Rountree. By printing Quick on the Inquirer...
There were other indications of restiveness about aid, on both sides of the aisle. Prodded by Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield, a onetime champion of foreign aid, the Senate handed MSA two new deadlines: all economic-aid speeding must end by June 30, 1956, and all spending for military assistance must be wound up a year later. The deadlines demonstrated that the U.S. Senate (and U.S. citizens) has not forgotten that the MSA program was, indeed, meant to be temporary. Said Senator Mansfield: "I believe . . . that the MSA as such has reached a point where the returns...
...Spillane was all set for his acting debut as co-star with Lion Trainer Clyde Beatty of the 3-D film Man-Killer. His main screen assets: a squint, a crew cut, 5 ft. 8 in. of muscles. Spillane, in the manner of his hero, gore-spilling Private Eye Mike Hammer, will play a detective in hot pursuit of a homicidal maniac...
...movie theaters. Surveying the technological development that set the corn rolling, the Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...taxpayer is out of the U.S. for 17 months out of 18. Van Johnson, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour went back into vaudeville; Roz Russell and Bette Davis tried a retread on the legitimate stage; television sopped up Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden and George Raft. Mike Romanoff, the royal restaurateur, made it final: "The motion picture community can no longer support...