Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year's mysteries was the failure of the American League to uncover any outstanding rookie (the National League dug up about half a dozen). This year the Americans had a star candidate in right-handed Pitcher Art Houtteman. Of all places, he will play in Detroit, which many think already has the best pitching staff (Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, etc.) in baseball. The Boston Red Sox, rated even money to win their pennant again, hope to fill their big hole in right field with an ex-Marine rookie, Sabath ("Sam") Mele...
...trade. "It's all a communistic plot to run as eat of business," one of them said. "This vacation stuff is all wrong. Why they can get all the vacation they used any afternoon at the pinball machines. Why, what has New York got that we haven't? Chicago? Detroit? Miami? Nothing, Nothing...
...Hollywood and Detroit, art bowed to purity without a whimper...
...When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...
With one week of play left, the teams in the National Hockey League ranked, roughly, in the order of their distance from the North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...