Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his years in the booth, Burke resisted inversions by countless mike-crazy students who wanted to talk over the public address system, guided visitors to every corner of Cambridge; he was also badly inured when a truck hit the booth and rolled it several feet...
...Bill heard another call. It came in, strong and clear, from Oklahoma's political vineyards and it said that he should run for the U.S. Senate, opposing Oklahoma's bumbling old Elmer Thomas in the Democratic primaries (also likely to seek the seat: able Democratic Congressman Mike Monroney). Bill Alexander considered his position. As pastor of one of the wealthiest congregations in the state and as one of the most popular lecturers in the Southwest (he owns his own plane to keep five to eight lecture dates a week), he earns about $40,000 a year. His deacons...
...Mike! As news of the police action spread, the remaining Cardenas cabbies raced downtown, began to stone and overturn Marfil Marrón cabs. By threats and cajolery, they persuaded the larger, more conservative Cab Drivers Syndicate to join them in a strike. By nightfall there was not a cab to be hailed in all Mexico City...
Promptly at 9 o'clock, "Mike" Johnson, 45, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of waterfront crime (TIME, May 16), walked into the office of courtly, white-haired Executive Editor Keats* Speed, 70, editorial boss for 33 years of the staid, arch-conservative Sun. Said Speed in anguished accents: "I am taking you into my confidence because I have a nasty job to do. You must not breathe a word of this. We are being sold today, and I am an absolute wreck." Speed ordered stunned Reporter Johnson to lock himself in the musty...
...combined paper quickly signed up the Sun's Drama Columnist Ward Morehouse, Sport Columnist Grantland Rice, Paragraphs H. I. ("Hi") Phillips. Columnist George Sokolsky* switched his column to Hearst's Journal-American; Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Rube Goldberg also jumped to the JA. Such by liners as Reporter Mike Johnson, 82-year-old Henry McBride, dean of U.S. art critics, and Washington Correspondent Phelps Adams would have little trouble landing jobs. But heartbroken Executive Editor Speed was "looking for a hobby," and most of the Sun's staff of 1,200 editorial, business and mechanical employees were looking...