Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, Mich...
...Detroit police learned from Raymond W. Scott, a movie usher, why he had falsely reported that a time bomb was in the theater: for six weeks he had been looking at the same Lana Turner movie...
Rumania's Michael, visiting sportsman-flyer and speed enthusiast, found life accelerating a little on his U.S. visit. Washington followed Manhattan; next came Dayton, Detroit, then on to Cleveland, Texas, Toledo and Manhattan again. The Governor of Michigan himself flew the ex-king over Detroit ("to show His Majesty this arsenal of democracy"). There were also less hospitable elements. Pro-and anti-Michaelites scuffled briefly in Detroit, and the State Department said it was "taking measures" in recognition of "reports of rumors of a plot...
...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
Ayres, Tomasick (4) Hallet (7) and Cooper; W. Hafey, Wilkie (8) and Raimondi, Lillard (8). Detroit (A) 000 000 050--5 6 0 New York...