Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quit being ashamed and embarrassed," he said. "Don't hide behind the scorn of the professional 'drys.' You have let them shrink you into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
...daughter of a Detroit druggist, Barbara Dane tried "to sing opera, oratorios and all that jazz" when she was just out of high school, "but I felt it just didn't fit me." Meanwhile she had mastered a few folk songs, and because "nobody else in town knew them," she soon found herself strumming and humming for the glory of organized labor: "I must have sung on every picket line the U.A.W. threw up." Even after she moved to the jazzy West Coast, she stuck to her guns, occasionally found some unique ammunition. Item: a girl...
Died. David Fredenthal, 44, Detroit-born artist known for sketches of news events, particularly battle scenes made for LIFE during World War II; of an overdose of barbiturates; in Rome...
Filling the Chinks. Unlike Detroit's designers, who change styles each year, Europe's small-car men hardly touched their existing models this year. Instead, they concentrated on bringing out a fleet of brand-new cars to fill in the gaps in their lines and expand their growing markets still more. Italy's Fiat brought out an 81-h.p. hardtop two-seater to compete in the $3,200 price class with Britain's popular Austin Healeys, added a new baby line called the "Jolly," with four wicker seats and a price tag of about...
Hamlet, Twelfth Night & Henry V. New vigor from the Old Vic. In MADISON and DETROIT...