Word: cranbrook
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...twelve beautiful girls, known as "The Fisher Body Girls." These presented the publicists with keys. The city of Detroit, close to Canada, had taken steps to provide in every way for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.* On the first day of the convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid depths of a large swimming pool. On the next evening, as guests of the Detroit Free Press, News & Times, the advertising men enjoyed an almost...
Resolved to die poor, Publisher George G. Booth, son-in-law of the late James Edmund Scripps, newspaper owner, added $6,500,000 to the $5,000,000 he and his wife have already given to complete Cranbrook Foundation-"cultural centre" of five schools and a church-on his estate in northern Michigan (Bloomfield Hills). A children's school and a boy's school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy...