Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit police gathered disturbing statistics on juvenile delinquents. Eighty percent of 10,000 teen-age lads who had had trouble with the law in Detroit last year came from families with adequate or above-average incomes...
Unfair. In Detroit, Striker John Moser asked a judge to order his boss to stop trying to hypnotize him while he was trying to picket...
...came from Detroit's music lover Henry Reichhold, who runs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Reichhold's publicity men snagged newspaper space by calling Prizewinner Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...
Last week, Detroit Symphony-goers and a national ABC radio audience got their first chance to hear what all the money was spent for. The composer himself had explained his work: "If it is broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor...
...cronies than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making all that money out of them...