Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refusing to buy. Despite the most honeyed words of Vogue and other fashion magazines, women in all U.S. cities were betraying no sudden fascination for the new clothes with longer skirts. Expensive Scotch and bonded bourbon sat untouched in liquor stores-the U.S. had gotten used to cheaper blends. Detroit used car lots were jammed with new automobiles for resale at fabulous prices, but almost nobody was having...
...hardest jobs the President had to do last week was to sit still in Key West while his daughter made her radio debut in Detroit. Margaret had a good choir-average soprano voice, and she had trained it faithfully for years. Had she been anyone else, most of the U.S. would have missed her show. But now a record 15 million listeners waited for the worst...
...crowded stage of Detroit's Music Hall, Margaret faced the nearly empty auditorium in a blue, off-shoulder gown and a mantle of apparent composure. The Music Digest Sunday Evening Hour tactfully announced its pleasure in presenting "Miss Margaret Truman, of Washington, D.C." No reference to her father was made...
...Detroit, Police Censor Charles Snyder jailed three stripteasers of the Empress Burlesque. Said Virginia Murphy, 27, who had taken off her G-string and thrown it to the audience: "I was leaving and I wanted the boys to remember...
Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...