Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked Congress for a transfusion," cried Price Boss Di Salle last week, "and they gave us an enema." Like the rest of the Administration, Rabelaisian Mike Di Salle was wailing that the weakened controls law threatened imminent inflation. But last week it was plain that an older law-supply and demand-was still at work. Instead of rising, a lot of prices were falling...
Frank Goodman also entered the quarter finals by narrowly defeating Steve Sonnabend 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Others in the quarter finals are Mike Levinson, Donald Stout, Dick Hatton, Chase Peterson, Gunther Ruff, and the winner of the Xenakis-Galphin match, yet to be determined...
...sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just under 5 ft. 10 in. without his elevator shoes, he weighed a tubby 240 Ibs. M-G-M demanded 40 Ibs. off by mid-August, and he was sure he could meet the deadline...
Amendments were put up, passed or rejected, sometimes at a rate of one every two minutes. In about eight hours, 75 amendments were disposed of. At 1:10 a.m., while Mike Di Salle and Stabilizer Eric Johnston watched, stony-faced, from the gallery, the House rattled out its version of the controls bill, by a final 323-to-92 vote...
Nobody was more surprised than Walcott himself. Back in his corner, Jersey Joe was so choked with emotion that at first he could hardly utter a word. He slid to his knees, and only his bustling, happy handlers kept him from collapsing to the canvas. But at the TV mike he recovered and delivered a muscularly religious sermon. As he later told reporters: "I've worked for 21 years for this night. I read my Bible before the fight I prayed between every round. I asked God to help...