Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buried in His Work. In Detroit, five-year-old Donald Prieur, athirst for knowledge, set out for school for the first time, paused en route to take up the study of a barrel, was eventually sawed...
Early this year, a man walked into the Detroit offices of the Kresge Co.'s variety chain. He introduced himself to the merchandising manager, then took out a small pipe no bigger than a soda straw and quickly blew a glasslike bubble as big as a watermelon. Then he detached it and handed it to the merchandising manager. Bubble in hand, the manager hastily called a meeting of Kresge's entire sales department to consider this wonderful...
...Southampton, L. I., Henry Ford II merrily turned 30 at the Meadow Club, with the assistance of home-town dinner-dance guests imported from Detroit by the planeload...
Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
Lifts & Luck. Besides Kramer, Coach Roche adopted just two other tennis protégés before going to Detroit to design new automobile gadgets. One was Ted Schroeder; the other was a youngster named Doug Woodbury, who died in an airplane crash...