Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother was related to the Ford clan and sister to J. L. Hudson, founder of Detroit's biggest department store. His mother helped to found Detroit's first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where...
...astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the American painter John Carroll, whose wispy, willowy ladies were scarcely top quality even in their own time. Nevertheless, there are enough first-rate impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tannahill collection to make any museum happy-especially the Detroit Institute. "One of our most worrisome gaps has been in the area of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," says Director Willis F. Woods. Adds Assistant Director Cummings: "Now we can compete with Chicago...
Tannahill's collection has never been well known outside his native Detroit, and even there only a few friends and museum officials have ever seen it as a whole. Tannahill kept it on the walls and tables of his elegant Grosse Pointe home, seldom lent or published anything from it. Next spring the entire collection will go on view at the Detroit Institute, and the public will be able to see how one man's fancy built a magnificent collection any museum can be proud...
...minister glanced at the car that had pulled up in front of his Detroit office and wondered whether, in police parlance, he had been "set up." As one of the 75 members of Michigan Clergy for Problem Pregnancy Counseling, he had been called earlier by a man who urgently wanted an appointment. But the car outside carried the "EU 1" license-tag prefix that, the minister knew from his work around the city, is allotted to the Detroit police department. Was this a raid by policemen seeking to smash an "abortion ring...
...quite, relates the Rev. Carl Bielby, director of social services for the Detroit Council of Churches, who organized the counseling service 20 months ago. The driver of the car was indeed a police officer. But he was bringing his own unmarried, pregnant daughter for counseling. The minister sat down with the two and outlined the procedure for going outside Michigan for an abortion that would have been impossible at home...