Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple...
...Detroit 3, Chicago...
Inside Job. In Detroit, Patrolman Charles Brueckner was accused of stealing the lunches belonging to his fellow policemen...
Graduating from Dartmouth ('25), Brown had a try at banking in Detroit, returned to Dartmouth to teach history, got a Ph.D. in history from Columbia, and published a biography of a minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
...Detroit 24, Chicago Cardinals...