Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...after Miss England's mishap the Detroit race officials reconsidered their intention of cancelling the third heat. George Wood ran Miss America VIII slowly over three laps of the 30-mile course. But the name of Gar Wood's 13-year-old son, Garfield Arthur Wood Jr., in whose name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England...
...Detroit, Mrs. Rose Veres was beneficiary of more than 60 insurance policies, banked $68,000 in twelve years. When a roomer fell to his death from her house police investigated, found eleven other roomers had died there mysteriously. Three were Mrs. Veres's husbands. She had given most of them elaborate funerals, had them photographed in their coffins, collected the insurance...
...names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
Author George Davis. 25. Chicagoan. after a couple of years in Detroit's City College worked in a Chicago steel plant, in Marshall Field's bookshop, then joined the U. S. expatriate colony in France. Friend of Authors Jean Cocteau, Norman...