Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome was in doubt until the ninth inning when Cherry reached first on an error by second baseman John Rooney and advanced to third on Turco's single to right. With two out, Dan DeMichele broke a five game hitting slump with a run-scoring single to left...
...champagne before the bubbly pairs of part-time actors began playing the part of traveling companions in the filming of a series of Braniff Airways commercials. First off, there was baseball's Whitey Ford tweaking the twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This...
...tentative explanation or two, a couple of immediate points might be stated: Skidoo is hysterically funny, although many people will disagree and I'd be hard put to tell them specifically what in it was funny. Skidoo is superbly acted, notably by Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, and Mickey Rooney, three good and obviously wise...
Will the donations soften Rooney's penny-pinching predilections? Rimstad doesn't think so. "I don't think it makes any difference one way or the other. He will damned well do as he pleases...
...contributions were perfectly legal. By making their donations to a citizen group for Rooney rather than to the candidate himself, the donors did not violate the Hatch Act provision prohibiting direct political contributions. Nonetheless, as the Washington Post argued, "The giving of campaign contributions under such circumstances is not far removed from a genteel bribe. And the taking of them is bound to strike some people, starting with us, as something very like a political shakedown." Rooney sailed off to Japan for one of his regular inspections. In Tokyo he will confer with Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and look...