Word: detroit
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James McNeill Whistler's stock was going up. Bought from a Manhattan dealer by the Detroit Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." (Bad Boy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, won a farthing's damages.) Asking price for Nocturne that year (1875) was $1,000. Price reportedly paid by Detroit...
Like the fisherman in The Arabian Nights, Detroit's Federal Judge Frank A. Picard had unwittingly let the terrifying genie of portal-to-portal pay out of the bottle. By last week, as union claims swelled up to a terrifying $5 billion, Judge Picard set valiantly to work to lure the genie back in-or at least cut him down to a manageable size...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
...jungle of portal-to-portal pay suits was suggested last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. It asked Detroit's Federal Court judge, Frank A. Picard, to dismiss the Mount Clemens Pottery Co. case (TIME...
A.F.L. President William Green urged his unions to withdraw portal-to-portal suits, settle all claims over the bargaining table. More significantly, C.I.O.'s big United Steel Workers and United Automobile Workers withdrew eight claims against Detroit manufacturers totaling nearly $8 million...