Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home from a peek at the Brussels Fair, Producer Jean Dalrymple, Coordinator of the U.S. Performing Arts Program for the U.S. exhibit and Director of Manhattan's City Center, assured TV Torquemada Mike Wallace that the world is very much with the U.S.: "Oh, it's not true, all this talk of anti-Americanism. I've never found it in Europe except among a certain set of intellectuals-the ones the newspapermen are always with. They're all liberal and leftist. There were 750,000 people at the fair...
...fastest-sharpening wits in television belong to dark, disheveled Elaine May and blond, carefully tailored Mike Nichols, both 26, whose dry dialogues are as lethal as cold...
...what they do," says Milton Berle, who caught their nightclub act "60 or more times" in Manhattan. "It's how they do it, and they always do it different." Last week, on Dinah Shore's Chevy Show, Elaine and Mike supplied a sample: a long-distance phone conversation between a self-pitying neurotic mother and her feverishly busy scientist son who is too busy trying to launch a balky U.S. satellite to call or write. (Mike: I feel awful. Elaine: Honey, if I could believe that I'd be the happiest mother in the world...
...Chicago she didn't bother to enroll, and talked-mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in and out of progressive schools, worked as a shipping clerk, disk jockey, even a jingle judge. "It was easy-throw out the dirty ones, and the one that was left was the winner," remembers Mike. He took acting lessons from Broadway's Methodman Lee Strasberg, then in Chicago teamed with...
...Junior Singles championships, rowed over the Downstream Course from Weeks Bridge to Magazine Beach a week ago Monday, Bob Bradford finished first in a field of five, about a length and a half ahead of second-placing Mike Adair...