Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes, the going may get tough. John Bull must hold in mind the merit of the reply courteous, a point best made by Lord Halifax, whose answer to an egg barrage in Detroit was, "How lucky you are to have eggs to throw." Cheke's concluding advice: "Above all, Mr. and Mrs. Bull should school themselves and remain masters of their tempers...
Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...last week Jack Schermerhorn, a police reporter on the Detroit Free Press, hustled from the police station to the office. He was looking for Malcolm Wallace Bingay, Free Press editorial director, and he was going to give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...took Managing Editor Dale Stafford to keep young (26) Schermerhorn from taking a punch at 64-year-old Newsman Bingay. More than one Detroit newsman wished Stafford had not bothered. Big (205 lbs.) Malcolm ("Bing") Bingay is one of Michigan's best known citizens, but hardly one of its best loved. His autobiography is a revealing self-portrait of an editorial egocentric who made good...
Angles & Iffy. But if Bingay was tough, aggressive and insensitive, he also knew Detroit, and knew the angles. At 29, he was managing editor of the News. When Hearst bought the Detroit Times and stole away News readers by printing horse-racing odds, Bing lobbied through a state law banning the publication of such odds...