Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyeful of earnest, sinewy Mike erased all thought of class struggle from the McKenney heart. "Shy for the first time since I ran away from home at the age of 14," she mumbled "Hello." "His wife's in Reno, divorcing him," boomed the frank pal who accompanied Mike. "I don't brood [about it]," Mike chipped in sharply. "My wife and I have been separated for years...
Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...first "recognized"* Negro to play in major-league ball, Infielder Robinson is an experienced worker at the mike. Last year he did a six-day-a-week local show over Manhattan's WMCA and, during the World Series, appeared after every game on Sportwriter Bill Corum's radio and TV show. But his network program over 220 ABC stations last week brought some surprises. The biggest was the discovery that of the first six stations to grab the show for local sponsorship, five were in the South: Mobile, Ala., Gastonia, N.C., Lynchburg, Va., Jackson, Tenn. and Hattiesburg, Miss...
Pressures. Oklahoma's able Mike Monroney joined in. "Don't we trust ourselves?" he demanded. "Must we have a group of twelve men to protect us from ourselves...
...only one thing wrong with Look's snippets of wisdom: Lincoln had never said them. A few were paraphrases of genuine Lincolnisms taken out of context; others were pure invention, and all had been denounced as spurious in the Abraham Lincoln Quarterly. By last week, admitted Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, Look was deluged with a "fantastic" flood of mail from indignant readers who had spotted the alleged Lincolnisms for what they were...