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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mickey Rooney, 27, flouted the show-must-go-on tradition in London, prematurely flew home after a painful smallpox vaccination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Matter of Opinion | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Send for Shaw. Bob Shaw, who looks a little like Mickey Rooney trying to be serious, and a little older (he is 31), has practically a monopoly on big-league choral singing. He has put new life into the art in the U.S. CBS and RCA Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choral Varsity | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Spot. In St. Louis, Policemen John E. Rooney and John V. Cunniff fumed at their radio as it blared out orders to investigate an open manhole-at the moment their squad car was stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Senator Leverett. Saltonstall, Songwriter, Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady with the '30s, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after learning that Mickey's salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Songwriter Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady wit of the '303, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after learning that Mickey's salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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