Word: arbors
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...Detroit Tigers are the property of an Ann Arbor pizza man named Tom Monaghan, an orphan who adopted the Tigers when he was seven, in 1945, the year they beat the Cubs in seven games. Borrowing $500 some time later, he ran it into at least $53 million, which is what he bought the team for last October, aware that it was a good team but not suspecting just how good. Winning 35 of its first 40, playing 17 games on the road before losing any, Detroit dismissed the American League's East Division early and sent the Baltimore...
DIED. Carl Proffer, 46, scholar, translator and publisher with his wife Ellendea of an indispensable Soviet literature press; of cancer; in Ann Arbor, Mich. By reprinting the work of contemporary, often dissident Soviet authors as well as preserving the work of Soviet playwrights and writers of the '20s, the Proffers' press helped keep some of the best Soviet literary work alive in the West...
Monaghan intends to rebuild the house as part of a Frank Lloyd Wright museum at Domino's Pizza new world headquarters on 300 semirural acres near Ann Arbor, Mich. He will be assisted by Architect-Builder David Henken, 68, a former Wright student who was in charge of putting up the house originally. Henken saved the fragments when earlier efforts to sell the house failed. He estimates that the reconstruction will cost...
Attractively displayed, the structure could be an important inspiration to America's approach to housing, the Wright inspiration. One of Monaghan's other planned structures at Ann Arbor sounds less salutary. He intends to put up Wright's "Golden Beacon," a 56-story skyscraper that was designed in 1956 for the Chicago lakefront but never built. Its design is to be adapted to accommodate Domino's office needs, a move that may result not only in an anachronism but a stylistic pastiche. "I don't want to turn the place into a Disneyland," Monaghan insists...
Unlike Aleshkovsky, Sergei Dovlatov, 42, was a virtual unknown in his homeland. His first work since he emigrated in 1978 is The Invisible Book, published by Ardis Press in Ann Arbor, Mich., a small publishing house that specializes in Russian literature. Currently one of the most visible writers in exile, Dovlatov is a regular contributor of fiction to The New Yorker. Last fall a collection of short pieces, The Compromise, was published by Knopf. The tales are conspicuously devoid of the anger, overt and covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov...