Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dressed tip-to-toe in clinging net, she looks more or less like a stand-up hammock. But the bizarre is what the fans came to see in Donyale Luna, 21, the Detroit-born spindle...
...first game, Coach Dick McGuire kept Bradley on the bench until the Knicks had built up a 12-point lead over the Detroit Pistons, "so the pressure wouldn't be so great." When No. 24 quickly swished an eight-foot jump shot, the crowd went wild-and kept on cheering, even though Bradley got off some amateurish passes and showed obvious rustiness at the foul line, making only two of six free throws. Next game, against the St. Louis Hawks, Bill looked sharper, sinking eight straight baskets. Then he blew everything in the final seconds with a clumsy jump...
...Detroit 14, Minnesota...
...Among bishops most prominently mentioned as his successor: John F. Dearden of Detroit; Francis F. Reh, head of the North American College in Rome; Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester; John J. Maguire, the temporary administrator of the New York archdiocese; John J. Wright of Pittsburgh...
...skull fracture; in Manhattan. What listener could ever forget when Harry roared into the mike: "He's at the 40, the 45, the 50, the 55 . . ." The bloopers notwithstanding, he was one of the best in the business from 1935 to 1952, when he broadcast for the Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins and New York Giants, and piled up enough of a fortune by 1959 to buy his own team, the A.F.L.'s New York Titans. The team went nowhere and the fans went elsewhere, forcing Wismer to sell out for $1,000,000 in 1963 to Sonny Werblin...