Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only minutes to make up his mind. Connecticut was ready to break for Dewey. Where the hell was Baldwin, so Sigler could talk to him? Trapped in a pack of sweating pages, newsmen, photographers and delegates crowding the aisles, Sigler could not move. James Powers, a Michigan delegate and Detroit auto dealer, grabbed Sigler's arm and shouted: "Go on, go on, don't be a fool...
Welcomed by the Detroit Institute of Arts was Mrs. Edsel Ford's $100,000 low relief in stone from her late husband's collection.* It was 15th Century Sculptor Desiderio da Settignano's Profile Portrait of a Young Woman, who managed to look both wistful and stately...
When the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, former dean of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit, married Isabelle Wilson Morrill, a divorcee, last year, many an Episcopal churchman was shocked into protest (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week Mrs. O'Ferrall went to Reno. "He criticized my hats and the way I dressed in public," she explained. "I've brought all my hats with me to Reno." The Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall said nothing...
...committee picked was 42-year-old Psychologist Douglas Murray McGregor. Leathery, spiky-haired McGregor is an expert on "human relations." He was once night watchman at the mission his grandfather founded in the '90s for Detroit's jobless. After studying at Wayne University, he worked in a gas station, later took a Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937, when M.I.T. decided that its engineers should be more than just animated slide rules, it hired Psychologist McGregor to see what he could do about it. He has been there ever since...
...ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...