Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost at the same time, three more Canadians were picked up walking a road near Detroit. They too had draft cards. Authorities asked questions. Next day an immigration man walked into the U.S.O. lounge in Toledo's Union Depot, called out: "All Canadians step this way!" Eighteen young men answered the call. In four days some 37 Canadians, all hoping to join the U.S. Army, a "career with a future," were nabbed. All were deported...
Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
...change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused Bobo Newsom, Detroit pitcher, of brawling in the Shoreham Hotel. Newsom offered to punch him in the eye if he came around. Ruark went around to the Tigers' locker room, where they squared off, swung at each other, started a free-for-all. Ruark's name got into sports pages all over...
...Struck Out. In Detroit, Dwight Sutherland liked baseball broadcasts so much, objected so strongly to his wife's fondness for soap operas that he finally broke the radio over her head...
...Paid in Full. In Detroit, John Sargent found his wife in a bar, shot her dead, gave the bartender a nickel to call the police...