Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight or so early next month. One of three members of the old Stalin gang (the others: Premier Khrushchev, President Voroshilov) still surviving in the top ranks of the Soviet hierarchy, wily Armenian Mikoyan, 63, will officially be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but Mikoyan's obvious purpose in making the trip is to talk to top U.S. officials, possibly the President. The U.S. has "no information" on Mikoyan's plans, announced a State Department spokesman, but he added that presumably "anyone he wished to see would be glad...
...League lapels keeps a straight face while he straightens out such impossible plots. It is even harder to figure how his audience keeps from collapsing with laughter. But they both manage. Introduced by NBC (Monday, 9-9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) this fall as a kind of literate Mike Hammer, Private Eye Gunn in less than two months was pressing the prizewinning Danny Thomas Show, in latest surveys ranks near the top of NBC programs...
...spoof people, Bil has generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...
Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...
...varsity basketball squad saw its 16-point lead dwindle to a precarious four-point margin before it finally defeated a stubborn Tufts team, 60-54, last night at Medford. George Harrington and Mike Donohue led the Crimson attack with 15 markers each...