Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Team: Cleveland (by ½ game) Pitcher: Wilhelm, Baltimore (6-0) Batter: Kuenn, Detroit (.378) RBI: Killebrew, Washington (32) HRs: Killebrew, Washington...
...projects beckon. The city of Detroit has asked him how to give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...fever that swept over Benny Hall Jr. brought some strange, upsetting symptoms. A $110-a-week printer in Detroit, Benny had lived contentedly for years in a $7,000 frame house, saved a nest egg of $5,000 with the help of his thrifty wife. One day in 1950 Benny Hall grew restless, excited, preoccupied. For a week or so afterward, at breakfast he riffled distractedly through the back pages of his morning newspaper. Finally he confessed to his wife:"I'm interested in the stock market...
...Cleveland 24 15 .615 -- Chicago 24 16 .600 1/2 Baltimore 24 18 .571 11/2 Kansas City 18 20 .474 51/2 Washington 20 23 .465 6 Boston 17 22 .436 7 Detroit 17 22 .436 7 New York 15 23 .395 81/2
...York 9Baltimore 0 Baltimore 2 New York 1 Washington 8 Boston 3 Cleveland 3 Detroit 2 Detroit 6 Cleveland 3 Kansas City 8 Chicago...