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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with a new season about to begin, there were only 13 shows in Broadway's 30 playhouses, and all but one (Mike Todd's bosomy, bumptious Peep Show) were holdover hits from past seasons. During the summer, television networks had gobbled up three more legitimate theaters (making 16 to date). Production costs were skyrocket-high. Producers bemoaned the lack of new playwrights, and looked in vain for the open-handed angels of only a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Season on Broadway | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Challenge. In Los Angeles, a thief stole Mike Brown's car from the only garage that was locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look. Five years later, after Look moved to New York, Executive Editor Mich ran the magazine under Editor Mike Cowles, had a big hand in making Look a success. When Quick was launched a year ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To the Ladies | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...sixth day, General Kim's forces stumbled northward to regroup. Mike Michaelis stretched out on the ground under a poplar tree outside his command post. He yawned. "Kim's mission was to knock me off this road and take Taegu," said Mike. "He failed. He's going to try another way, but we beat him here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: At the Bowling Alley | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kiss the Donkey | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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